175 billion dollars - That’s the staggering amount George Bush is asking Parliament to approve for ongoing funding of the Iraq war.

If the supplementary funding bill goes through, the cost of the War in Iraq could reach 3 trillion dollars - making it the second most expensive war in American history.

Theodore Lowi is a Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University and has been following the escalating cost to American taxpayers.

2ser’s Ekaterina Kossian asked him to outline how supplementary funding operates.