http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0502-01.htm...brings back memories of Wolfowtitz testifying before Congress in 2004:
The chief architect of the U.S. war in Iraq did not know - and showed no sign that he cared - how many U.S. soldiers have been killed implementing his blueprint since the invasion was launched in March 2003.
"It's approximately 500 of which - I can get the exact numbers - approximately 350 are combat deaths," said Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense. It was no trick question. Wolfowitz the Architect was testifying about the cost of the war Thursday before the House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) asked the key cost question.
The Architect's figures, not surprisingly, were low-balled. Before the invasion, Wolfowitz woefully underestimated the war cost in dollars to U.S. taxpayers. The number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, as of Friday, is 738, according to the Pentagon and news reports - not 500. Instead of "approximately 350" killed in combat, 524 had been killed when Wolfowitz appeared before the committee.
The Architect did not accurately enough concern himself with the death of individual American soldiers, or groups for that matter. So it was 524 in combat instead of 350, or a total of 726 instead of "approximately 500" on Thursday morning. But don't bother the Architect with untidy details; he's a big picture kind of guy.
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