http://www.futureofthebook.org/iraqreport/6-us-economic-and-reconstruction-assistance/ Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.futureofthebook.org/iraqreport/6-us-economic-and-reconstruction-assistance/#comment-266 Kevin Baker Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:08:53 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/iraqreport/6-us-economic-and-reconstruction-assistance/#comment-266 No figure better illustrates the Bush administration's essential lack of seriousness in Iraq. We have previously been informed in this report that the conduct of the war costs some $2 billion a week. Yet here is the Study Group, begging the administration to increase U.S. economic assistance to all of $5 billion a year--in other words, the equivalent of what it costs to run the war for half a month. The $753 million authorized for emergency economic assistance in 2006, mentioned in the paragraph above, is the equivalent of roughly 2.5 days of conducting the war. No figure better illustrates the Bush administration’s essential lack of seriousness in Iraq. We have previously been informed in this report that the conduct of the war costs some $2 billion a week. Yet here is the Study Group, begging the administration to increase U.S. economic assistance to all of $5 billion a year–in other words, the equivalent of what it costs to run the war for half a month. The $753 million authorized for emergency economic assistance in 2006, mentioned in the paragraph above, is the equivalent of roughly 2.5 days of conducting the war.

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