Context? WTF? Irrelevant? WTF???
In what you call a “debate” leading up to the war the warmonger side provided estimates as to how much “Being Greeted as Liberators” was gonna cost?
Here is an example of what the warmongering side pushed with their enthusiasm for invading Iraq:
*** In the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq 15 years ago, one factor in the debate was the notion that the the war would almost pay for itself.
“The oil revenue of that country could bring between $50 [billion] and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years,” Paul Wolfowitz, then the U.S deputy secretary of defense, told a congressional panel in March 2003. “We're dealing with a country that could really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.” ***
And now after the fact you you want to impose a ban on criticizing the warmonger’s cost over-run of $6.9 trillion.
You want us to call a cost-overrun of $7 trillion (DJT numbers) that killed half a million Iraqis a success.
How about discussing the corrupt push for war In THE ******* CONTEXT of all the death and maiming it caused and the horrendous failure to predict the anticipated cost instead of your stupid notion that the warmongers won the debate; goodnight.
That is one of the most stupid of the many stupid things you say.
**** "[Congressional Budget Office] estimates a price tag of $14 billion for the war itself and $8 billion to $10 billion a month, for an unspecified period, after hostilities cease," Pethokoukis and Benjamin wrote in 2003.
https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/p...timated-costs-and-price-tag-of-the-iraq-warSo why
The Bush administration estimated the war would cost $50 to $60 billion, including the costs of reconstruction and clean up. As of 2013, the Cost of War Project estimates the war has cost $1.7 trillion—nearly 30 times the pre-war estimate. That cost doesn't factor in future costs of veterans' care, which push the total to more than $2.1 trillion. The Veterans Administration spending related to Iraq—which totals $45 billion—is almost as much as the Bush administration's overall cost estimate. ****