the Sugar Conspiracy

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Somebody needs to buy them a calculator

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.

If a company operated its business like this, it would go under. Then again...I guess it's just more of the same from the Bush Administration.

posted by chris at 1:17 PM
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