Bush Request Would Push War Total to $440B
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The Bush administration said Thursday it will ask Congress for an additional $120 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
During the buildup for the Iraq War, Rumsfeld stated to Congress that it would cost less than $50B total!
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Isn't lying to Congress a crime?
The Bush administration promised reconstruction of Iraq could be financed through oil revenue, which they said would provide tens of billions of dollars.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: "If you [Source: worry about just] the cost, the money, Iraq is a very different situation from Afghanistan...Iraq has oil. They have financial resources." [Source: Fortune Magazine, Fall 2002]
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: "I don't believe that the United States has the responsibility for reconstruction, in a sense...[Reconstruction] funds can come from those various sources I mentioned: frozen assets, oil revenues and a variety of other things, including the Oil for Food, which has a very substantial number of billions of dollars in it. [Source: Senate Appropriations Hearing, 3/27/03]
State Department Official Alan Larson: "On the resource side, Iraq itself will rightly shoulder much of the responsibilities. Among the sources of revenue available are $1.7 billion in invested Iraqi assets, the found assets in Iraq...and unallocated oil-for-food money that will be deposited in the development fund." [Source: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Iraq Stabilization, 06/04/03]