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A. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute i am director of the decade of center for constitutional studies and your host this afternoon. I am pleased to note cosponsoring our debate today on behalf of the Federalist Society flinty extend a welcome also to those watching us streusel Live Streaming and through the offices of cspan tv as well. On monday, january 13, the Supreme Court will hear an argument called the nlrb defers is standing with the most important constitutional cases is expected to decide this term at issue is the recess appointments power to make recess appointments to federal office is that otherwise requires confirmation and it has never decided said nature or scope but for todays debate it is worth it to begin to ....
choosing those, we have one eye on the past and one that is very firmly set on the future. we are asking first what is the state of iraq today, how far towards the u.s. original goal of a functioning democracy has it come, and what is the outlook for this country in the region, for its neighbors, and that will be the subject of our first panel. we are then going to look at the economic costs of the war. you may remember the president bush s economic adviser was fired for predicting that the war might cost $100 billion to $200 billion. he was off by a factor of 10, and as we are going to hear and our second panel, made much more than that. finally, we are going to ask from the u.s. point of view, what are the geopolitical and military and strategic lessons in so far as we can see them from this near and far vantage point? what are the take-homes from this conflict? wonderfulsembled a first panel. i have no question that however much each of us knows about this conflict ....
have in baghdad. i hope we will see that because it has been somewhat absent in recent years. how do the people of iraq view the relationship with the united states? an individual, you might get two different answers, so you can imagine if you ask that all of the people. they are conflicted about their attitude towards the united states. right from the beginning, some saw intervention by the united states as a threat and some saw it as salvation. those who saw it as salvation later found that they were disappointed in many respects. there were ships, even in the perspective of individual attitudes. shifts, even in the perspective of individual attitudes. there was great elation the set on hussein was removed, for sure. great elation that said obama hussain was removed, for sure. ddamthis was that said do hussein was removed, for sure. at the government level, the strategic agreement is still in place, but it would not be wrong to say that the government of see at th ....