you in a sense a bottom line question. you were asked again by a senate committee how much will this cost and you said iraq will be able to pay for its own reconstruction relatively easily. in fact that part didn't work out that way, so looking out -- >> wait, wait. i was asked how much will the war cost. i said we have no idea how much the war will cost. i said iraq can, unlike afghanistan, iraq is not going to be a permanent ward of the international community. >> you said we are dealing with a country that can finance its reconstruction and relatively soon. that's the exact quote. >> after the end of conflict. this war went on, in fact to some extent it still goes on today. at this point i think iraq is largely, i don't know the numbers now. okay, i was somewhat -- the sense was the war wouldn't last for six, seven years and that this was a country with substantial oil resources. >> but what i'm trying to get at is a larger question, which is looking back from where we are
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