# $120 billion or $200 billion? (Iraq)

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 10, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-billion-or-200-billion-iraq/268419 "2004-10-10T00:10:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-billion-or-200-billion-iraq/268419/21 "2004-10-10T14:35:04Z")

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NPR, bastions of conservative rhetoric that they are, criticized Kerry for using $200 billion in the first debate, and counted it as one of his exaggerations. They had a list for both candidates.

He ought to qualify it if he wants to keep using it. I saw US News and World Report use that figure, too, in an opinion piece, and I wished they’d qualified it as well.

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