A stroll down memory lane with the Republicans

Tommie Cotton, comparing the situation in Iran with that of Iraq in 1998, said in a radio interview Tuesday that eliminating Iran's nuclear facilities would only take “several days” of US airstrikes. 

Donnie Rumsfield pre-Iraq invasion-- "I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks, or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that. "

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Scottie Walker:  "If I can take on a 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world,"

Iraq Coalition Casualty Count:   4,486 U.S. soldiers DIED in Iraq and 2,345 U.S. soldiers DIED in Afghanistan, 1 MILLION  U.S. soldiers wounded in both wars.

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The Bush administration estimated the cost of the Iraq war at  $60 billion dollars. 

The U.S. will shell out somewhere as much as $6 trillion dollars for the Iraq War, once all is said and done, according to a recent report out of Brown University.  According to Reuters, that figure includes $1.7 trillion spent so far with an additional $490 billion in benefits. Other expenses, including interest, could well mean that the expenses will balloon to as much as $6 trillion in total.