The situation is so completely FUBAR I don't know what good it does commenting, but here's a quote anyway:"We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon," Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told Congress a week after the war began. Oil revenue, he predicted, "could bring between $50 billion and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years." Phew, at least we won't need another or anything.
How many times does Wolfowitz get to be wrong before he becomes a serial miscalculator? (And where is Ken Pollack these days? Strangely quite it seems to me...)
Damn these numbers are getting big. Remember we already appropriated $79 billion for the war back in April. And now Bush wants another $87 billion. But it doesn't stop there. Tomorrow's LA Times will report (fmhreader / fmhreader works for the sign in) that Bush still needs another $55 to $75 billion! 79 + 87 +55 = 222 billion dollars! A quarter trillion dollars.
Here's a graph from the WaPo which attempts to put just the $87 billion in perspective.
(links via talkingpoints and agonist)
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How many times does Wolfowitz get to be wrong before he becomes a serial miscalculator? (And where is Ken Pollack these days? Strangely quite it seems to me...)
- jim 9-08-2003 6:22 pm
Damn these numbers are getting big. Remember we already appropriated $79 billion for the war back in April. And now Bush wants another $87 billion. But it doesn't stop there. Tomorrow's LA Times will report (fmhreader / fmhreader works for the sign in) that Bush still needs another $55 to $75 billion! 79 + 87 +55 = 222 billion dollars! A quarter trillion dollars.
Here's a graph from the WaPo which attempts to put just the $87 billion in perspective.
(links via talkingpoints and agonist)
- jim 9-09-2003 3:37 pm [add a comment]