The price tag of the Bush Administration's so-called troop surge into Iraq is poised to balloon in the wake of a recent Pentagon determination that the $5.6 billion requested last month to pay for the addition of 21,500 ground forces and additional warships in the Persian Gulf is inadequate. Tina Jonas, the Defense Department comptroller, is preparing a revised fiscal year 2007 emergency supplemental spending request following recent discussion with commanders in Iraq, according to a Pentagon spokesman. "That is...
