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POPSThe Hidden Cost of War - (3 trillion) In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is more than 10 times that estimate. So what's behind the ballooning figures? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme's exhaustively researched book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, breaks down the price tag, from current debts to the unseen costs we'll pay for many years to come.
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POPS"Thank God for John McCain" Now that I have gained my bearing back I feel that the least the oil companies could do is put a little bit of money back in our pockets. The following proposals are a few ideas I have come up with. A modest 80% tax on all oil pumped out of Iraq to be paid back to the American taxpayer for our continued support. Establishment of $1 million dollar trust funds for all families of soldiers killed in Iraq. A guaranteed donation each year of all profits in Iraq to the Department of Veterans Affairs to cover PTSD and war related illness. Feel free to add your own proposal.
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POPSCost of Iraq War Consider, for example, that the value of one EPA, the annual budget of the Environmental Protection Agency, is about $7.5 billion. The cost of the Iraq War is thus more than a century's worth of EPA spending (in today's dollars), almost 130 EPAs, only a small handful of which would probably have been sufficient to clean up Superfund sites around the country.
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POPSGeorge Bush's Trillion Dollar War An excellent editorial by Bob Herbert in the N.Y.Times regarding the outragious cost of the Iraq war.It is truly astounding to me that President Bush had the gall to say that the entire situation would fall to "future presidents and future governments of Iraq".Clearly he has washed his hands over the financial burden we are leaving for future generations!
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