Here's more from the same folks.

On December 31, 2002, the New York Times reported: "The administration's top budget official estimated today that the cost of a war with Iraq could be in the range of $50 billion to $60 billion."

U.S. troops will be welcomed in Iraq as liberators.
What they said:
On March 16, 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney stated in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press "Now, I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."

Iraq will be able to shoulder much of the reconstruction costs.
What they said:
Deputy Defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a House defense subcommittee in March 27, 2003 that "We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon." In a Senate Appropriations Hearing on March 27, 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, "I don't believe that the United States has the responsibility for reconstruction, in a sense… funds can come from those various sources I mentioned -- frozen assets, oil revenues and a variety of other things, including the Oil for Food, which has a very substantial number of billions of dollars in it."

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