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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59512-2003Jul28.html
International Peacekeeping Force in Iraq to Cost U.S. $200 Million
(Washington Post) Dov S. Zakheim, the Pentagon comptroller, said Friday that the Defense Department will pay $30-40 million in airlift costs for transporting most of a 9,000-member division to Iraq and about $200 million to cover meals, medical care, and other support costs. Zakheim said the Pentagon is not covering the cost of compensating troops, the largest expense, which more than a dozen participating countries in the division will bear. The Polish-led division will include 2,400 Polish troops, 1,300 troops from Spain, 1,640 from Ukraine, and smaller battalions from Hungary, Romania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mongolia, and the Philippines.