[Rudy is no James Baker.]
You can say that again. Baker not only put some steel in Dubya’s spine, helping him across the finish line in 2000, he extracted $60b from the Saudis, Kuwaitis, Germans and Japanese for the expedition to reverse Saddam’s annexation of Kuwait, making Desert Storm the sole American war in which revenues were not merely a line item - they were actually greater than war expenses.