Iraq: No light at the end of the tunnel (Hiaasen / Miami Herald)

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CARL HIAASEN
Miami Herald

On the five-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, President Bush declared that the United States is on the way to winning the war.

He made this stupefying pronouncement in the safe confines of the Pentagon, where it's unacceptable to question the commander-in-chief, no matter how dense or self-deluded he might be ...

Five years ago, the Bush-Cheney brain trust said the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq would cost between $50 billion and $60 billion. That number was every bit as reliable as the assertion that Saddam had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction.

The Pentagon now says the war has cost about $600 billion, while congressional estimates put the sum in excess of $1 trillion - roughly 20 times more than the administration predicted ...

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