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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (222648)	3/7/2005 5:53:16 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575535

I thought we were talking about the war in Iraq. 1 - We were. You brought up Vietnam and I responded to it. If you don't want to talk about Vietnam, than you shouldn't... talk about Vietnam. Its not the complicated. 2 - The war in Iraq is also temporary. It might be another year, or another three, or another 5 or whatever but it isn't going to keep growing in terms of cost. That is not what calculations show. At worse, those costs will level off eventually; at best, decline slightly. 1 - The calculations do show continued growth. Their might be a slight decline after the baby boomers in some of the calculations but then the growth continues. 2 - Almost every calculation done to determine the cost of these programs has been lower than the actual cost, often much lower. No, its based on the advice of experts coupled with past experience. "The advice of experts" is itself speculation, and you can find experts on just about any issue that support all sorts of different conclusions. Your "past experience" also amounts to speculation. Your not speculating about the past but you are speculating that there will be no change (or only changes for the worse) for 3 to 5 years. Tim