17 Mar 08: Zachary Coile writes in the San Francisco Chronicle: "The United States has poured more than $500 billion into Iraq, mostly for military operations. But that figure is just a small piece of the much larger bill that taxpayers will pay in the future.
"Because the money for the war is being borrowed, interest payments could add another $615 billion. A heavily depleted military will have to be rebuilt at a cost of $280 billion. Disability benefits and health care for Iraq war veterans, many of them severely injured, could add another half-trillion dollars over their lifetime. . . .
"The price tag in Iraq now is more than double the cost of the Korean War and a third more expensive than the Vietnam War, which lasted 12 years. . . .
"Only World War II was more expensive. That four-year war - in which 16 million U.S. troops were deployed on two fronts, fighting against Germany and Japan - cost about $5 trillion in inflation-adjusted dollars."
Dave Lindorff explains why the Iraq War is driving the deficit and price of oil and food up.
Senate report (PDF) on the role of speculation in rising oil & gas prices.
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips. Subtitle: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism. In Bad Money, Phillips describes the consequences of our misguided economic policies, our mounting debt, our collapsing housing market, our threatened oil, and the end of American domination of world markets. [emphasis added]
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Think Progress » FLASHBACK: Economists Predicted That A Prolonged ...
| The Iraq Recession. I do hope this sticks as the label. ..... Did prolonged U.S. presence in Iraq lead us into a recession? ... thinkprogress.org/2008/01/23/iraq-recession/ - 74k - Cached - Similar pages |
BBC NEWS | Business | War with Iraq could spark recession
| Any conflict with Iraq together with a spike in oil prices, could endanger the world's economic recovery and hit consumers in the pocket. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2240551.stm - 55k - Cached - Similar pages |
Between the Bits: Trying the war in Iraq to the recession
| Trying the war in Iraq to the recession. There are some thoughts that while war is usually good for the economy, the war in Iraq has been incredibly bad for ... johnhummel.blogspot.com/2008/ 01/trying-war-in-iraq-to-recession.html - 54k - Cached - Similar pages |
War News Good? Let's Create A Recession | Sweetness & Light
| And behold a comparison of both Google searches and news reports for the terms “Iraq War” and “recession” via Google Trends: ... sweetness-light.com/archive/ war-news-good-lets-create-a-recession - 31k - Cached - Similar pages |
Issues and Elections
http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/01/16/getting-us-out-of-iraq-can-get-us- out-of-recession/. The article links to every way in which our American life ...
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Peace Action Coalition's summary of economic effects and further commentary on the Moratorium of March 19th
Saturday, March 1, 2008
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