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Iraq Costs US $12B Per Month




Topic started on 10-3-2008 @ 12:29 AM by Sestias


Iraq Costs US $12B Per Month


www.examiner.com

The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book.

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reply posted on 10-3-2008 @ 12:29 AM by Sestias


Much of the cost is justifiable, according to this report, but what price is the U.S. willing to pay? Should we say "whatever it takes to do the job," or do we say "at this point the expense is too great?"

www.examiner.com
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reply posted on 10-3-2008 @ 07:02 AM by HHH Is King


12billion to kill US Troops, or 12billion to save 4million US Children? Oh that's right Halliburton doesn't benefit from SCHIP.



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reply posted on 17-4-2008 @ 11:52 AM by Sestias


I posted this last month, and so far have gotten one reply. Does nobody else think 12B per month is an extraordinary amount to be financing on borrowed money?



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reply posted on 17-4-2008 @ 12:10 PM by Sublime620


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People don't care. They have election mudslinging to care about now!

Nevermind looking at the big picture.



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