Help me find ORIGINAL * quote

[serryjw]

Where said that the 'oil' would pay for the liberation of Iraq? Pelosi quote referring to it I can find....when did * say it?

[liveoaktx]

1. Link

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2003/n10022003_200310025.html

The American taxpayer will not have to foot the entire bill for rebuilding post-Saddam Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today.

The $20 billion for Iraqi security and reconstruction contained within President Bush's $87 billion supplemental budget proposal for fiscal 2004 now before Congress "is not intended to cover all of Iraq's needs," Rumsfeld noted to reporters at a Pentagon press conference.

"The bulk of the funds for Iraq's reconstruction will come from Iraqis," explained Rumsfeld, who was accompanied at the briefing by Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Iraqis will pay for the rebuilding of their country, the defense secretary noted, through oil revenues, recovered assets, international trade, direct foreign investments and contributions from the international community.

[Bozita]

2. It wasn't Bush ... it was one of the loyal neocons in his administration

The cost to the US was gonna be under $2 billion. Reconstruction was gonna be paid with Iraqi oil money.

Is that the one you're looking for?

[Eric J in MN]

3. Here are Bush Admin quotes

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz: “There’s 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…and on a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years…We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.”

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: “If you the cost, the money, Iraq is a very different situation from Afghanistan…Iraq has oil. They have financial resources.”

more at:

http://www.house.gov/schakowsky/iraqquotes_web.htm

[serryjw]

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I knew I had it but couldn't find it!