Democrats: Bush downplaying Iraq costs (CNN)

[joefree1]

Democrats: Bush downplaying Iraq costs
Pelosi: 'Iraq policy has had little basis in reality'

Thursday, April 15, 2004 Posted: 9:57 AM EDT (1357 GMT)

A leading Democrat has challenged President Bush's comments that Iraq's oil revenues were "bigger than we thought."

"The administration insisted that Iraq's oil revenues could finance rebuilding the country, but the people of the United States have provided more than $120 billion thus far, much of it for reconstruction efforts," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in a written statement Wednesday.

"From the outset, the president's Iraq policy has had little basis in reality."
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Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, speaking to the House Appropriations Committee on March 27, 2003, estimated the figure in the tens of billions of dollars if Iraq's oil fields were not destroyed.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry listed the Wolfowitz quote, along with numerous other quotes and estimates from top Bush officials, in a news release last month titled, "Bush: Misleading America On True Cost of Iraq War.
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/15/bush.oil/



Great, count on oil from those thousand of miles of exposed and unprotected pipelines. Good plan. <sarcasm>

Fortunately there are plenty of out-of-work applicants looking to drive the Iraq tanker trucks courtesy of the Bush economy.

[MSgt213]

1. I'm sorry but this is bullcrap. We have spent way more then 120 billion