Hi SidoRe the $1 trillion. I remember in the lead up to the war...

Hi Sido

Re the $1 trillion. I remember in the lead up to the war when Bush got a bureaucrat from the US govt General Accounting Office to do a costing of the prospective war. The figure that was arrived at by the GAO team was $300 bn, which was not an acceptable answer, as the figure required was(from memory) something like $60bn, a reasonably easy sell to the US public. Response....sack the GAO team and repeat the $60bn mantra till everyone is sick of hearing about it then drop the concept of cost altogether.


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