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January 18th, 2006

11:53 am [Link]

War's Stunning Price Tag: Why were the costs so vastly underestimated? Elsewhere in the government, it is standard practice to engage in an elaborate cost-benefit analysis for major projects. The war in Iraq was a war of choice, an immense "project," and yet it now appears that there was virtually no analysis of the likely costs of a prolonged occupation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11595.htm