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Post by redwolf on Mar 4, 2008 8:02:05 GMT -6
The $2 Trillion NightmareBy BOB HERBERT The war in Iraq will ultimately cost U.S. taxpayers not hundreds of billions of dollars, but an astonishing $2 trillion, and perhaps more. There has been very little in the way of public conversation, even in the presidential campaigns, about the consequences of these costs, which are like a cancer inside the American economy.www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/opinion/04herbert.html?th&emc=th
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Mar 15, 2008 2:47:08 GMT -6
Joseph Stiglitz provided some real interesting commentary.
"What we’re getting instead is the stuff of nightmares....Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia, has been working with a colleague at Harvard, Linda Bilmes, to document, among other things, some of the less obvious costs of the war. These include the obligation to provide health care and disability benefits for returning veterans. Those costs will be with us for decades.
Mr. Stiglitz noted that nearly 40% of the 700,000 troops from the first gulf war, which lasted just a month, have become eligible for disability benefits. The current war is approaching five years in duration....
“Imagine then,” said Mr. Stiglitz, “what a war — that will almost surely involve more than 2 million troops and will almost surely last more than six or seven years — will cost. Already we are seeing large numbers of returning veterans showing up at V.A. hospitals for treatment, large numbers applying for disability and large numbers with severe psychological problems.”"
From Stiglitz's comments, the future costs of this war could be tremendous. The sooner we get out the better. We're not just destroying our military and our international reputation, we're worsening our already sinking economy.
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Post by redwolf on Mar 17, 2008 12:10:47 GMT -6
But why would we want to end such a "successful endeavor"? Cheney says Iraq invasion "successful endeavor" By Tabassum Zakaria BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a "successful endeavor," pointing to security and political progress on a visit ahead of the fifth anniversary of the war.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080317/pl_nm/iraq_dc_36
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Post by lasher on Mar 17, 2008 13:43:44 GMT -6
And I am Grace O'Malley, Pirate Queen of Ireland.
Lasher
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Post by huck on Mar 17, 2008 15:08:54 GMT -6
if it was a success then we can leave now right? And I am Grace O'Malley, Pirate Queen of Ireland. Lasher grace allen maybe? she ran for president hay, gold knight, gray sea !
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