Cord Byrd: “Scriptures say that the wages of sin is death. We are not being told what the wages of this war are going to amount to.…”

“Scriptures say that the wages of sin is death. We are not being told what the wages of this war are going to amount to. There is no discussion. One may be led to believe that this is going to be like a video game: It will be just over in a matter of moments, in days or weeks. There is no discussion of the cost. There is no estimate. Now, I find it very hard to believe that the administration has not carefully explored the potential cost of what the American people are going to be asked to bear; and I think the polls we read about, which indicate a pretty high degree of support for the President in his passion to lead us into this war--I don't believe those people who are asked questions have any idea whatsoever as to what the costs are going to be. Why should they? We ourselves don't have any idea. The administration is not presenting us with any estimates of the cost. This seems to me to be strikingly strange. We are being led into a war--led into a war--by an administration that makes no effort whatsoever to tell the American people what they are likely to pay in treasure, in lives, and especially with regard to a postwar Iraq. I think it is going to be like a bottomless pit.”