12/13/2002

Regarding war in Iraq, “some in the [Bush] administration, according to a report drafted by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment [on December 13, 2002], even argued that all the postwar costs, ‘the cost of the occupation, the cost for the military administration and providing for a provisional administration, all of that would come out of Iraqi oil.’ ”

 – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 268