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cal04 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-10 10:58 PM Original message |
The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-10 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. I remember that Stiglitz's original $1.3 trillion estimate was condemned as inconceivable. |
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Frustratedlady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 01:36 AM Response to Original message |
2. And the big winner is..........Halliburton. |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 02:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Halliburton was the recipient of many of the original no-bid contracts. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 05:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Gee, it almost makes you wonder... |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 11:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. CONSPIRACY THEORIST...Booga Booga! |
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Golden Raisin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 03:08 AM Response to Original message |
4. Just think what 3 trillion |
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Citizen Worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 05:44 AM Response to Original message |
6. Bush's first OMB director was fired for publcly stating his estimate of $200 billion. |
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LawnKorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 05:48 AM Response to Original message |
7. Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics are laughing all the way to the bank |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
8. $3 trillion, $5 trillion or what ever: such small prices to pay for the fruition of the long-held RW |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 11:33 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. If you have not read this *brilliant* post by Time for change, I highly recommend it. |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 11:59 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Time for change's body of work surely must be the most cogent, compelling, |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 12:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Agreed. If he puts it all together in a book, I'll buy it. nt |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 12:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I have raised this prospect with him: if I were king, his body of work would be mandatory reading |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-05-10 01:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. So have I! He can title it "Time for Change" and it must be required reading |
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