Wrong

[katty]

more: http://www.dailykos.com/ (!5 years and counting....)

Wrong
by georgia10
Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:29:02 PM PDT
They were wrong:

At the outset of the Iraq war, the Bush administration predicted that it would cost $50 billion to $60 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, restore order and install a new government.

Five years in, the Pentagon tags the cost of the Iraq war at roughly $600 billion and counting. Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and critic of the war, pegs the long-term cost at more than $4 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office and other analysts say that $1 trillion to $2 trillion is more realistic, depending on troop levels and on how long the American occupation continues.

And wrong again:

On CBS's "Face the Nation" on March 16, Cheney said the fight would be "weeks rather than months. There's always the possibility of complications that you can't anticipate, but I have great confidence in our troops." Cheney also predicted the fight would "go relatively quickly, but we can't count on that."

[lpbk2713]

1. K&R

[sudopod]

2. k n r

[whistle]

3. Bush and Cheney lied about the preliminary estimates of the Iraq War

...and how long they intended to remain in the country, because they had a totally different private agenda verses what they were publically telling the American public

[Solly Mack]

4. worse than wrong...those fuckers flat-out lied about everything

they knew they were lying when they said all that, otherwise they wouldn't have "retired" everyone who said any different