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ld," said President Bush. So much for accountability. Then, of course, there was Vice President Cheney: "We do know, with absolute certainty, that (Saddam Hussein] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon." -- "No. I think we may wel

s liberators, and that will help us to keep requirements down ... It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post- Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine. And the bi

e do know, with absolute certainty, that (Saddam Hussein] is using his procurement system to acquire the e

ion. Clearly a triumph of forgetting. "It's really the decision of how to pay for it that has had such a negative effect on the U.S. economy," said Linda Bilmes, lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and co- author, along with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, of The Three Trillion D

We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam Hussein] is using his procurement system to acquire the

ld," said President Bush. So much for accountability. Then, of course, there was Vice President Cheney: "We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam Hussein] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon." Or this one, from 2005 --

that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine. Actually, not so hard, given that Shinseki had just imagined it. And that's one of the most madden

on. Clearly a triumph of forgetting. "It's really the decision of how to pay for it that has had such a negative effect on the U.S. economy," said Linda Bilmes, lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and co-author, along with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, of The Three Trillion D

ad linking Sen. Cleland to °scoria bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Sintilarly. Mr Bush defeated Sen. John

ing Sen. Cleland to °scoria bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Sintilarly. Mr Bush defeated Sen. John Kerry,

land, 1)- ;a. — a Viet- nam triple amputee — by question- ing his "courage.' Rep. Chambliss ran an ad linking Sen. Cleland to °scoria bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Sintilarly. Mr Bush defeated Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.. two years ago by constantly resurrecting the sear- ing memory of 9/11 and questioning Sen

ec. 30, and continues to climb. Where do those higher numbers come from? Front a fascinating paper by Nobel Prize economist Jo- seph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes. who specializes in budget analysis. -The Economic Costs of the Iraq War" can be accessed at www.nberorg/ papers/w120S4 and is written in ordina