us go broke, go home dead

Iraq, the mother of all budget busters
Jan 14, 2006
atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HA14Ak01.html

Recall the sacking of White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey for suggesting in 2002 that the Iraq war could cost $100-200 billion - up to three times the $70 billion the Bush administration estimated. Then wonder at the latest estimate of $1-2 trillion - and why someone has not been sacked for running 2,000% over budget.
- David Isenberg

"If Bush had come to the American people with a request to spend several hundred billion dollars and several thousand American lives in order to bring democracy to Iraq, he would have been laughed out of court."
- noted political scientist Francis Fukuyama