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“We never said that we knew what it would cost.”
Donald Rumsfeld on the war in Iraq, ABC This Week, 13 July 2003, Department of Defense transcript here.
Of note perhaps to readers who pay taxes and vote in the United States:
According to figures publicly available and at a monthly level of spending that Secretary Rumsfeld refers to as a burn rate, the quantifiable cost of the war in Iraq is now approximately
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For documentation and comparative data click here, for accounts of costs less quantifiable here and here.
