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Politics : John McCain for President

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To: RetiredNow who wrote (2014)	7/13/2008 9:11:45 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 6579

Yeah, such estimates include interest on the national debt, high gas prices, all future medical costs: Besides the direct military spending, I’m including the gas tax that the war has effectively imposed on American families ... .. The war has also guaranteed some big future expenses. Replacing the hardware used in Iraq and otherwise getting the United States military back into its prewar fighting shape could cost $100 billion. And if this war’s veterans receive disability payments and medical care at the same rate as veterans of the first gulf war, their health costs will add up to $250 billion. Has the war had a real impact on gasoline prices? What about Chinese and Indian demand, Nigerian and Venezuelan and Mexican and Russian production declines? Nah, just chalk it all up to Iraq. Baloney. And future hardware, veterans payments, disability payments - how much of those would have been borne anyway? Who care - just chalk it all up to Iraq.

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