CAP's Daily Grill

Thanks to the Center For American Progress for this juxtoposition:

"The American part of [paying for Iraq's reconstruction] will be one-point-seven billion dollars. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this."

– Bush USAID Director Andrew Natsios, 3/23/03

VERSUS

"The Bush administration intends to seek about $70 billion in emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan early next year, pushing total war costs close to $225 billion."

– Washington Post, 10/26/04