Remember When... "Budget official sharply cuts cost estimate of Iraq war" Originally appeared Tuesday, December 31, 2002 in the New York Times " The administration's top budget official estimated Monday that the cost of a war with Iraq could be in the range of $50 billion to $60 billion, a figure that is well below earlier estimates from White House officials..." Currently, the conservative Congressional Budget projection is 110,000,000 and counting (see the righthand column). Unlike the first Gulf War, we're paying the brunt of the tab rather than the Kuwaitis, Saudis, and Japanese. The Neoconservative hawks driving policy in the United States today were wildly off the mark, their rosy fantasies have given way to grim reality. I guess they see the world through blood-coloured glasses. Mitch Daniels The Budget Buffoon