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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (450539)	8/30/2003 6:37:55 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 769667

Anyone know HOW MUCH this Iraqi adventure is going to cost...?? The country has a record deficit and Shrub provides very little fiscal discipline. Maybe we should just give everyone another tax cut - that might help get our finances back in shape. Michael O'Hanlon from the Brookings Institute suggests the war will cost us any where from $300 billion to $450 billion. Most military pundits agree with him. <font color=blue>"Brookings Institution fellows Lael Brainard and Michael O'Hanlon said in a Financial Times article this month that military and reconstruction costs could be from $300 billion to $450 billion." realcities.com