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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: steve harris who wrote (690325)7/6/2005 9:10:56 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps   of 769670
 
"From the start, the Bush administration refused to accept any dissent from the idea the entire campaign could be done, essentially, on the cheap.

White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey was shoved out the door after he estimated the war might cost as much as $200 billion. Military and reconstruction costs will fly past that number.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki predicted it would take 250,000 troops to maintain security, destroy weapons and oversee humanitarian aid and reconstruction after the war. Paul Wolfowitz, then the No. 2 official at the Pentagon, said the number was wildly off the mark. Shinseki was pushed toward retirement."
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