Your tax dollars at work: Record $448 billion Pentagon budget

Iraq alone is costing the U.S. about $8 billion a month. To get your head around what $8 Billion dollars a month is, this works out to your tax dollars being spent in Iraq at the rate of $185,185.19 per minute!

Now we learn from an Associated Press article that another infusion of money--- $70 billion more for military operations-- will be needed next spring.

With final passage of pending bills, Congress will have approved $507 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan and heightened security at overseas military bases since the September 11 attacks five years ago, according to the Congressional Research Service.

And the measure enjoys sweeping support, despite the brief debate sparked through partisan exchanges over the Iraq war.

"If the president had told us the truth, that Iraq and Saddam Hussein ... presented no real threat to us, that there was no likelihood of weapons of mass destruction, that there was no connection to al Qaeda ... would this Congress have voted for war?" said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York. "I don't think so."

So little progress has been made on other bills that the Pentagon measure also carries a stopgap funding bill to keep open, through November 17, agencies whose funding bills won't have passed.

Only the homeland security measure is expected to also pass before members of Congress leave Washington to campaign.