POTTERY BARN RULE: Allegedly--"if you break it, you buy it."
From the Washington Pravda--Bob Woodward's book, "Plan of Attack" indicated that Sec'y Powell said something akin to the Pottery Barn Rule to the President before Iraq: "If you break it, you own it."
That exchange never occurred. The Pottery Barn doesn't have such a rule.
[Research credit to the Washington Pravda.]
KERRY: Right now the president is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to research bunker-busting nuclear weapons. The United States is pursuing a new set of nuclear weapons. [Emphasis added.]
TRUTH: Actual budget = $35 million.