Link to Vanity Fair's excerpt of Stiglitz' book "The $3 Trillion War"
Link to Democracy Now's interview of Stiglitz
Link to Times of London article
by Stiglitz
Link to FDL Book Salon interview
of co-author Linda Bilmes
| Getting us out of Iraq can get us out
of recession ... Economists Predicted That A Prolonged
U.S. Presence In Iraq Could Lead To
A Recession on January 23, ... www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/01/ 16/getting-us-out-of-iraq-can-get-us-out-of-recession/ - 162k - Cached - Similar pages |
| well said gonnuts . . . of course
the illegal war in Iraq has been the cause of this recession
. . . and the tax cuts for the wealthy . . . the recession ... www.huffingtonpost.com/_82917.html - 161k - Cached - Similar pages |
| Before the war, economists were
predicting that oil prices at just $75 a barrel could potentially send
the U.S. economy into a recession. ... www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/iraq-war-funds-recession - 37k - Cached - Similar pages More results from www.huffingtonpost.com » |
| I know its many trillions . how
many people know h... malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/ question/index?qid=20080213025804AAf6lB7 - Similar pages |
| While this coming recession
may not be *about* the Iraq War, I think there’s a good case
that the ultimate impact was negative. ... krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/an-iraq-recession/ - 85k - Cached - Similar pages |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Peace Action Coalition's summary
of economic effects and further commentary on the Moratorium of
March 19th
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."