$95b for war

Bradford DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Thu Feb 27 10:46:36 PST 2003



>Wall Street Journal - February 26, 2003
>
>Bush to Seek Up to $95 Billion
>To Cover Cost of War in Iraq
>
>By GREG JAFFE and JOHN D. MCKINNON
>Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
>
>WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is preparing supplemental
>spending requests totaling as much as $95 billion for a war with
>Iraq, its aftermath and new expenses to fight terrorism, officials
>said.

And they fired Larry Lindsey because he said the same thing last fall, and dominated a full day's news cycle as a result...

Brad DeLong



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