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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6lJjFPNv1s]YouTube - Rove claims Bush administration never said Iraqi oil would help pay for war[/ame]
Liar Liar, Pants on Fire.
Wolfowitz Strives To Quell Criticism (washingtonpost.com)
Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer
The rewriting of the history will be much tougher for Mr. Rove and his allies with the existence of the internet.
Liar Liar, Pants on Fire.
Wolfowitz Strives To Quell Criticism (washingtonpost.com)
The clip showed Wolfowitz telling a congressional panel, "It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself," and "The oil revenue of that country could bring between 50 and 100 billion dollars over the course of the next two or three years. We're dealing with a country that could really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon." The show's host, Jon Stewart, hooted, "[Bleeped] that one up, too!"
Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer
Q Back on the cost issue. If the U.S. does not get a second resolution, does the President believe that U.S. taxpayers will disproportionately bear the burden of the reconstruction costs in Iraq?
MR. FLEISCHER: Well, the reconstruction costs remain a very -- an issue for the future. And Iraq, unlike Afghanistan, is a rather wealthy country. Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for their own reconstruction.
And given the fact that Iraq right now suffers under sanctions as a result of Saddam Hussein's repression and Saddam Hussein's attempts to procure weapons which the United Nations have said are sanctionable -- the fact of the matter is that Iraq's reconstruction will be aided by the removal of Saddam Hussein because Iraq will then be able to take its proper place among nations of the world that trades and trades freely, which all benefits the reconstruction of Iraq.
The rewriting of the history will be much tougher for Mr. Rove and his allies with the existence of the internet.