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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts) Tue Mar 19, 2013, 09:25 AM Mar 2013

Charts: Bush Lowballed Us on Iraq by $6 Trillion [View all]

Charts: Bush Lowballed Us on Iraq by $6 Trillion
—By Tasneem Raja| Tue Mar. 19, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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Ten years later, the Bush administration's projected price tag for the war in Iraq seems downright cute. According to the first-ever comprehensive count of the true toll of the combined wars, the estimate the administration used to sell the invasion in 2003 was about 100 times too low.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/charts-cost-iraq-war

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Charts: Bush Lowballed Us on Iraq by $6 Trillion [View all] Ichingcarpenter Mar 2013 OP

Lying liars... K&R nt Mnemosyne Mar 2013 #1

Bush should be painting his puppies from a cell at The Hague malaise Mar 2013 #2

Unfortunately we bowed out under clinton Ichingcarpenter Mar 2013 #3

Amazing indeed malaise Mar 2013 #4

Well, money trumps peace. Octafish Mar 2013 #5

2003:J.P. Morgan Chase to Run Iraq's Trade Banks Ichingcarpenter Mar 2013 #6

9/11 and US-Led Neo-Fascism Octafish Mar 2013 #7

The first Gulf War was about money, oil, banking Ichingcarpenter Mar 2013 #8

Double Barreled Blasts from the Past Octafish Mar 2013 #9

Poppy's Daddy Prescott bankrolled HITLER, FGS. Apple, tree, rotten to the core. WinkyDink Mar 2013 #12

I think Bushco should cough up some of their personal money to help pay for this. winter is coming Mar 2013 #10

The masculine "Mission Accomplished" lost its "T"? WinkyDink Mar 2013 #11