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"Iraq war winds down, but costs soar" - 8/16/2010 12:16:19 AM

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A sobering reminder of the Iraq War's long term costs.

Iraq war winds down, but costs soar

Linda J. Bilmes

Sunday, August 15, 2010

"When all is said and done, the combined cost of caring for veterans, continued Iraqi operations, replenishing and transporting equipment and paying interest on the debt will bring the final tally to well over $2 trillion. Including the economic costs - both to individuals and to the economy as whole - the bill easily tops $3 trillion."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/14/IN2N1EOTK2.DTL#ixzz0wkbkP6tq

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/14/IN2N1EOTK2.DTL

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RE: "Iraq war winds down, but costs soar" - 8/16/2010 12:40:52 AM

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And incalculable beyond the financial.

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RE: "Iraq war winds down, but costs soar" - 8/16/2010 2:06:47 AM

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Rather then get angry (which I am, on the subject of Iraq....what fucked up job that was Mr. Bush)....

....Lets have a well known comedian explain it. (starting at 1:12)

Robin Williams

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RE: "Iraq war winds down, but costs soar" - 8/16/2010 12:29:11 PM

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The civilian and military lives lost and permanetly damaged are a terrible legacy.

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RE: "Iraq war winds down, but costs soar" - 8/16/2010 10:09:56 PM

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I wonder how the everyday Iraqi people might answer this?

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RE: "Iraq war winds down, but costs soar" - 8/17/2010 4:31:43 AM

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H'mmm, have we got what we went there for...... is it secured.....do we have control ?

Or is it....

It has worked out more expensive than we thought and what we went to get is negated by this.

Ok.....

Where next ?

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RE: "Iraq war winds down, but costs soar" - 8/17/2010 4:51:06 AM

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And what did we go there for? WMD? Nooo...there were never any there, so how do you secure what there isn't there to secure? Control of what...another country? Granted it is expensive. War is. The war has greatly contributed to our trillion dollar deficit, and just what did we accomplish for the Iraqi's? Do we just keep on warring til we fight all our resources away? At one time, back in 2001, I too thought war and getting back and having retribution for the twin towers...a physical war...was the way to go. But that was not a war with Iraq, that was a war with the terrorists, who we decided all lived in Afghanistan. That was before I realized the people there think differently than we do, they live as poor nations, terrorized by the very people who terrorized us. The terrorists do not live only in Afghanistan and the lack of gov't gives no salvation to those people held mercy by those terrorists. It just leaves them opened for other countries to come in and.....what....control them? Are we controlling the terrorists this way, too? Or would strategic intelligence be a better solution...a better way to war? (and far less cheaper imo)

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RE: "Iraq war winds down, but costs soar" - 8/17/2010 5:19:40 AM

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I wonder how the everyday Iraqi people might answer this?

I wonder why they cannot form a government eight months after an election. Too giddy with democracy perhaps?

More directly to your question ... why should we give a shit?

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RE: "Iraq war winds down, but costs soar" - 8/17/2010 5:49:54 AM

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Clearly the reasons we were given for going to Iraq were not legitimate. I don't believe that was mere mistake. I believe it was deception and intentionally so.

The trillion dollar debt comment you made Louve ... You miss the mark considerably I'm afraid. I expect you weren't intending to hit it squarely, but rather generally, as to the enormity and the ridiculous nature of it all.

See the following link, and the number $13 trillion.

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

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RE: "Iraq war winds down, but costs soar" - 8/17/2010 5:55:54 AM

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That does not take into consideration our assets. Social security and Medicare payments (which are included in the debt) are offset by trust funds.......reducing the debt back to the figure originally quoted.

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RE: "Iraq war winds down, but costs soar" - 8/17/2010 6:09:00 AM

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I wonder how the everyday Iraqi people might answer this?

The ones left alive feel pretty good about all of this US charity. Yet, after we leave in any real force, they will see it as the end of our occupation, not an end to their liberation.

To a person I've asked...WVa., Va., Md., & DC, Republicans all, have felt all along that we (US) had no business whatsoever going into Iraq at all but agree that we did because...war is a profit.

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RE: "Iraq war winds down, but costs soar" - 8/17/2010 6:21:40 AM

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quote:

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Clearly the reasons we were given for going to Iraq were not legitimate. I don't believe that was mere mistake. I believe it was deception and intentionally so.

The trillion dollar debt comment you made Louve ... You miss the mark considerably I'm afraid. I expect you weren't intending to hit it squarely, but rather generally, as to the enormity and the ridiculous nature of it all.

See the following link, and the number $13 trillion.

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

That figure is depressing alright but how about some real fiscal perspective ?

Our debt is going up $4.1 Billion/day which equals $2,847,222/ per minute.

Our unfunded liabilities public & private are going up $7 MILLION/PER MINUTE. $10 Billion PER DAY

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