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On NPR this week they interviewed Nobel Prize-winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz who wrote a book about the projected overall cost of this pointless, endless war. On the conservative side it will cost 3 trillion dollars. This is money we should be spending IN AMERICA on schools and healthcare and social security. Why do the nuts always off the people speaking out for peace? I say we off the war pigs and we can plea sanity when they take us to court. Was “avenging” the lives of 3,000 Americans worth our future? How were those people in the WTC more important than the soldiers and innocents that have died since then? (probably over a million)
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Tags: Fuck Bush, Fuck War, Iraq, National Debt, Protest
March 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
technically, we don’t HAVE that 3 trillion dollars. That’s the sad thing. The war is classified as an “emergency expenditure” and thus, isn’t even calculated into the federal budget each year. All that money shouldn’t even exist in the first place.
China’s paying for our war, and bankrupting our future.
Fuck George Bush.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:52 am
In a news story today NPR reported that we are spending roughly 12 billion dollars in Iraq alone each month. This number is NOT our total defense budget…just Iraq.
I wonder what the economic economic damage done to Iraq would equal. Millions of Iraqis have been left without jobs, and hundreds of thousands of professionals, managers and other middle-class citizens have fled the country.
In the book “The Three Trillion Dollar War,” the authors report both wars will have cost the U.S. budget $845 billion in 2007 dollars by next Sept. 30, end of fiscal year 2008, assuming Congress fully funds Bush administration requests. That counts not just military operations, but embassy costs, reconstruction and other war-related expenses.
That total far surpasses the $670 billion in 2007 dollars the Congressional Research Service says was the U.S. price tag for the 12-year Vietnam War.