Why did Bush Admin. say "Iraq war would pay for itself", and Cheney said...

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..."Deficits Don't Matter"? http://www.ontheissues.org/2004/Dick_Cheney_Budget_+_Economy.htm

In the December 13, 2002, briefing, deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz said that the "'the cost of the occupation, the cost for the military administration and providing for a provisional [civilian] administration, all of that would come out of Iraqi oil.'"

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oil_and_War_in_Iraq
 
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