Global Spin

When questioned by Congress, Donald Rumsfeld today upped his estimate of the cost of Iraqi occupation to $3.9 billion per month, double the previous estimates. To put that in perspective, $4 billion dollars would pay the monthly salaries of one million teachers.

Oh, and that doesn’t include reconstruction costs. Of course not.

Posted by Chris in Iraq, Politics on July 10th, 2003 Edit this page's grammar and spelling with Emend.