The cost of the Iraq war will come close to 1000 billion US dollars.
An excerpt an article by By MICHIKO KAKUTAN NYT, Published: October 7, 2005 discussing George Parker's book 'The Assassins' Gate':
"The administration systematically kept forecasts of the war's true cost from the public and, by the insidious effects of airtight groupthink, from itself. This would be historic transformation on the cheap." And this by an President who was "not interested in Nation Building."
"Fascism" : "The merger of corporate and government power."