{"id":8867,"date":"2013-03-29T14:45:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2013-03-29T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:46:40","slug":"the-gops-80-billionoops-2-trillion-oops-6-trillion-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8867","title":{"rendered":"The GOP&#8217;s 80 billion, oops &#8211; 2 trillion, oops &#8211; 6 trillion war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2002 Newsweek&#8217;s economist Robert Samuelson shrugged at the estimated $80 billion cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never forgotten that poor prediction which helped assure me we could handle Iraq. He was very wrong and he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/02\/27\/AR2007022701159.html\">admitted this in 2007<\/a> in a column I&#8217;ve only now just discovered.<\/p>\n<p>But even his 2007 mea culpa was <a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2013\/03\/29\/the-cost-of-the-iraq-afghanistan-wars\/\">off by 100 or 200%<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2002 Newsweek&#8217;s economist Robert Samuelson shrugged at the estimated $80 billion cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I&#8217;ve never forgotten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,31,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8869,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions\/8869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}