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To: TigerPaw who wrote (287490)	5/10/2006 2:41:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 1573917

and another half trillion in equipment that had already been purchased and stocked around the world. The tanks, aircraft, etc. that were or are being used in Iraq are still there and would have been there without Iraq. If they where destroyed or heavily damaged in Iraq you could count the cost of the replacement or repair. The bullets, gasoline, used up bombs and cruise missles etc. would already be counted under the direct expenses. This was has cost more than WW2 In nominal dollars maybe but maybe not, and in any case a dollar today is worth a lot less than in WWII. In inflation adjusted dollars its not even close to WWII. As a percentage of GDP its a tiny fraction of what WWII cost maybe 2%. That is only counting direct costs, because they can be more easily calculated, but the indirect cost of WWII where enormous, and also much greater than the costs of Iraq. Iraq isn't cheap but its a small war. Suggesting that its costs in dollars are even close to WWII is unreasonable, and when you consider non-dollar costs the difference is even larger.

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