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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (67886)5/22/2008 11:13:37 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 543149
 
>>In the run-up to the war there were few public discussions of the likely price tag. When Lawrence Lindsey, President Bush’s economic adviser, suggested that it might reach $200 billion all told, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld dismissed the estimate as “baloney.” <<

Mary -

Yes. And when John Kerry used Lindsey's 200 billion figure during the campaign, Cheney accused him of lying.

- Allen



To: Mary Cluney who wrote (67886)5/23/2008 4:44:22 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 543149
 
If we call it a $3tril war, do we get to make the same sort of calculations on every other government program and have those numbers be the headline figures?



To: Mary Cluney who wrote (67886)5/23/2008 5:33:05 PM
From: Bearcatbob  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 543149
 
"But where is your outrage at the cost of the $3 trillion war:"

I will be more outraged if we loose!


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