Subject: Re: The 'concept of a plan'

Donny: “well, you know, it won’t cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is very substantial.”

We heard that one, wrt Iraq, too: the war and occupation won't cost us anything, because it will be covered by oil revenues.

How the US public was defrauded by the hidden cost of the Iraq war

The most striking fact about the cost of the war in Iraq has been the extent to which it has been kept "off the books" of the government's ledgers and hidden from the American people. This was done by design. A fundamental assumption of the Bush administration's approach to the war was that it was only politically sustainable if it was portrayed as near-costless to the American public and to key constituencies in Washington. The dirty little secret of the Iraq war – one that both Bush and the war hawks in the Democratic party knew, but would never admit – was that the American people would only support a war to get rid of Saddam Hussein if they could be assured that they would pay almost nothing for it.

https://www.theguardian.com/co...

Second verse, same as the first.

Steve