Bush, Iraq war, real cost | Salon

I urge every hide bound conservative out there to follow the links. Those so challenged that they can't or won't go to the trouble to read, then go here and watch it on C-Span's Book TV where the authors speak at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club as recorded last March 4, 2008.

Bush, Iraq war, real cost Salon: "As the authors detail, the Bush administration has used every trick in the book to hide the real price tag -- concealing non-combat casualty figures, keeping double sets of books, not factoring in support troops, and allowing the Pentagon to produce budgets so contradictory, obscure and incompetently presented that there is literally no way to determine how much it has spent. The authors had to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain much of the information in their book."