From the archives

Loaded Mouth, 3/14/03:

The New York Times asks the question, "What Will It Cost to Rebuild Iraq?" Nobody knows the answer to this right now, but there are estimates that this will cost $20 billion and we would need 200,000 troops there to secure the country, which would spread our military out pretty thin (I guess the only good thing about that is that means that we wouldn't have the military strength to invade another country, unless the draft is brought back...) Years and years of commitment are needed for this process. So far, the US has been looking for takers on a $900 million contract to help rebuild Iraq after we bomb the crap out of it, and our current track record with rebuilding Afghanistan goes against us.

Looks like some pre-war predictions that us doves were screaming about weren't that far off the mark.