Harry Reid: “I have heard various accounts of how much the war in Iraq will cost. The accounts range from $60 billion to $250…”

“I have heard various accounts of how much the war in Iraq will cost. The accounts range from $60 billion to $250 billion, a quarter of a trillion dollars. That is the wide range of the cost of a war in Iraq. A resolution passed here saying the President could go to Iraq when he believed it appropriate. It seems to me that if we can spend up to a quarter of a trillion dollars to go into the Middle East, we can spend a paltry $5 billion to make sure that my people in Nevada have some semblance of protection. Would the leader agree that if we can spend hundreds of billions of dollars going to Iraq, we can afford, we should spend, $5 billion to take care of the people in South Dakota, West Virginia, Montana, Nevada, Alaska, Kentucky--the States of the Senators I see on the floor here now?”