But Rove flatly denied that the Bush administration said Iraqi oil revenues would help pay for the war
Lucy Van Pelt used to say:
"If you can't be right be wrong at the top of your lungs"
Lucy grew up to be a republican.
The addendum to that, as evinced by this article, is that if you repeat the same lies endlessly some morons will believe them to be truths.
"The likely economic effects [of a war in Iraq] would be relatively small.... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits."
~Lawrence Lindsey
White House economic adviser
September 16, 2002
"Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will."
~Richard Perle,
The Pentagon's Defense Policy Board
July 11, 2002
"It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars."
~Kenneth Pollack
former director for Persian Gulf affairs
National Security Council
September 2002
"The costs of any intervention would be very small."
~Glenn Hubbard
White House economic adviser
October 4, 2002
"When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community."
Donald Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
March 27, 2003
www.thenation.com
Anyone who still thinks Karl Rove isn't a total lying sack of shit simply aint paying attention.
Be Well.