Ooh, Snap!
Walter Pincus of the Post, writing about the memo prepared in advance of the famous July 2002 Downing Street meeting, gets droll:
Testimony by then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz, one of the chief architects of Iraq policy, before a House subcommittee on Feb. 28, 2003, just weeks before the invasion, illustrated the optimistic view the administration had of postwar Iraq. He said containment of Hussein the previous 12 years had cost “slightly over $30 billion,” adding, “I can’t imagine anyone here wanting to spend another $30 billion to be there for another 12 years.” As of May, the Congressional Research Service estimated that Congress has approved $208 billion for the war in Iraq since 2003.
The rest of the article is stuff you already knew, just more official-like.
Comment by matthew hogan —
June 12, 2005 @ 12:26 pm
That’s just how Medicare got started, and Social Security, and income tax — “I can’t imagine it ever rising to that high a level of assessment/expenditure,” said the pioneer of the program.
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Comment by bigd504 —
June 12, 2005 @ 11:10 pm
And how many soldiers/marines were either killed or wounded in those previous 12 years? I truly hope that those in this administration values the spillover in their’splendid little’ war.
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June 13, 2005 @ 9:35 pm
Wolfowitz Math: $208 Billion < $30 Billion
Unqualified Offerings writes: : “Walter Pincus of the Post, writing about the memo prepared in advance of the famous July 2002 Downing Street meeting, gets droll: Testimony by then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz, one of the chief archit…