Omigod! Operation Iraqi Freedom Isn’t Free!
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Remember when the president’s economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey was fired for estimating that the cost of the impending Iraq War might reach, at an “upper bound,” 100 to $200 billion?
And former deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, unwilling to acknowledge that the war might cost anything at all, assured Congress that Iraq’s oil revenue could finance its reconstruction? Those were the days . . .