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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: puborectalis who wrote (736923)	4/16/2006 8:06:06 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) of 769670

Would you not fight Hitler? "A rough consensus has been reached on the total cost of the war. The human cost is estimated at 55 million dead—25 million in the military and 30 million civilians. The amount of money spent has been estimated at more than $1 trillion, which makes World War II more expensive than all other wars combined." Now infl;ation has to be accounted for. data.bls.gov $1T in 1945 is equivalent to $110T NOW. How's your goose step? "Taken together, it is quite possible that the United States will ultimately spend more on U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan than it did on the Korean War ($455 billion) or the Vietnam War ($650 billion)," Kosiak wrote. $455B in 1952 is equivalent to $3.412T NOW $650B in 1970 is equivalent to $3.329T NOW. (Using 1970 as about the middle of that war.) But a study by Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, war critic, and former Clinton administration official, estimated the total cost of the war in the range of $750 billion to $1.2 trillion. So there is NO COMPARISON between the cost of this war and the one your idiot biased fool compares it to.

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