Iraq War Could Cost 2 Trillion Dollars

Old news I know but I want to point my kids to this article when it ends up it really cost 5 trillion.

The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert. The study, which expanded on traditional estimates by including such costs as lifetime disability and healthcare for troops injured in the conflict as well as the impact on the American economy, concluded that the US government is continuing to underestimate the cost of the war.

Because you know that the earlier estimates were from those with a corporate background that don’t consider lifetime care of employees or the environment – externalities, right?


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  1. A Alexander Stella Avatar

    In the beginning, I decided to join the campaign to impeach your “smirking chimp”, my “dum’ass botch”. As evidence for that, you’ll soon be invited to click on a hyperlink.

    Before doing so, however, I would like you to read through the rest of this text. In case, you’d like to know, the hyperlink to your blog, specifically, “Andymatic”, is found at the third hyperlink on the list below … ah, please remember, no clicking until AFTER reading the entire text.

    Perusing your blog, I believe I arrived at what is a reasonable inference. That is, both you and your readers would welcome news that indicates the campaign to impeach the president is increasing in both vigor and breadth. Ah, you’ll find that evidence by clicking on the second enclosed hyperlink.

    As for my plan for capturing Osama, again I should like to ask to refrain from clicking on any enclosed hyperlink, until AFTER you’ve read the entirety of the text.

    http://hewhoisknownassefton.blogspot.com/2006/01/osama-and-our-president-dumass-botch_20.html

    The hyperlink just above this sentence leads to my game plan. If you’ve gotten this far on the first read, without clicking on any of the enclosed hyperlinks, congrats!

    Whatever the case, remind or prepare, please keep in mind that it’s a good bet that everything else to snag bin Ladin has already been tried. I think it’s time we tried drawing on one of the few activities Americans do better than any other national group, music and pizza delivery being among those few activities.

    http://hewhoisknownassefton.blogspot.com/2006/01/danger-senator-specter-danger.html

    oh, yeah, and here’s the third hyperlink:

    http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/states-writes.htm#IL

    toodles
    ……\
    .he who is known as sefton

    oh, yes, surely, you’ve heard about the government “requesting” certain records about internet activity. oh, br’dah! … cynical and skeptical lil’ole me, I’m smelling a rat in all that. Quite candidly, I have cause to suspect that more than compiling statistics on access to pornographic websites is involved.

    oh, yeah, right after Hitler came to power, the German people were assured that, if they were innocent of untoward activity, they would have nothing to worry about … yeah, right.

    Incidentally, the second hyperlink leads to a piece that relates to governmental eavesdropping WITHOUT a warrant.

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