Administration Said War Would Result In Cheaper Gas

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From Wednesday Chris Matthew show: He interviewed Dan Bartlett, who said The administration made no such statement

MATTHEWS: Thank you, Dan Bartlett, counselor to President Bush.

Let's go now to NBC chief White House correspondent David Gregory. David, thank you for joining us. Dan Bartlett there twice denied that the White House ever tried to make the case for war. One of the cases they made for the war with Iraq is it would give us cheaper prices at the pump.

Well, our staff has dug this up. This was a case made by Lawrence Lindsey, who was chief economic advisor to the president in the months before the war in the fall of 2002. Very directly he made the economic case for the war would be cheaper gas prices.

“Under every plausible scenario,” he said, “the negative effect economically would be quite small relative to the economic benefits that would come from a successful prosecution of the war. The key issue is oil, and a regime change in Iraq would facilitate an increase in world oil, which would tend to lower oil prices for us.”

He's been caught there. Dan Bartlett denied that. He, in fact—his White House did, in fact, promise we'd get cheaper gas right now at pump. They've got two big problems: the Iraq war deteriorating in hopes now, and, of course, rising gas prices. What do you make of that?

[Waya]

1. And we believed it?????????

[BrklynLiberal]

2. You mean they lied??!!!

[SlipperySlope]

3. They also said magic glitter monkeys would fly out Saddam's ass...

Well, I don't know if they said it, but they probably believed it.

[Sapere aude]

4. I got it on the word of a freeper that we would own the oil in Iraq!

We own that oil now, Let's make a bunch of cheap gas. Freeps? Right? It's amazing. All these things I got from freeps on why the war is a good thing no one said, not even the freeps. I must have got it in a dream or something.

[northofdenali]

5. I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked!

Not.