Military faces $100 billion in equipment repairs.

After more than five years of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military’s equipment has been worn out, and repairs will cost the Pentagon more than $100 billion. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), chair of the House committee that oversees military spending, notes that the Bush administration’s failures to plan for the long wars makes the Pentagon’s plan “to add 92,000 new soldiers and Marines unrealistic.”