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  • joclark, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2Here are the quotes (From HuffPost) from the brilliant minds that got us into this debacle:

    "Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will."
    - Richard Perle, Chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, 7/11/02

    "The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits."
    - Lawrence Lindsey, White House Economic Advisor, 9/16/02

    "It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars."
    - Kenneth M. Pollack, former Director for Persian Gulf Affairs, U.S. National Security Council, 9/02

    "The costs of any intervention would be very small."
    - Glenn Hubbard, White House Economic Advisor, 10/4/02

    "When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community."
    - Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 3/27/03

    "There is a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people. We are talking about a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon."
    - Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, testifying before the Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, 3/27/03

    "The United States is committed to helping Iraq recover from the conflict, but Iraq will not require sustained aid."
    - Mitchell Daniels, Director, White House Office of Management and Budget, 4/21/03

    "Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for their own reconstruction."
    - Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary, 2/18/03
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