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To: epicure who wrote (213390)	1/1/2013 5:10:33 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541355

Yeah, I remember the stories about plane-loads of cash... I want to know what we bought with that!

To: epicure who wrote (213390)	1/1/2013 6:07:37 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541355

The whole Iraq war- waste. How much money is that? Economist Stiglitz Says Iraq War Costs May Reach $5 Trillion By Vivien Lou Chen and Thomas Keene - March 1, 2008 March 1 (Bloomberg) -- Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz, author of a new book that claims the Iraq war will cost the U.S. more than $3 trillion, said the final tally is likely to climb much higher than that. ``It's much more like five trillion,'' Stiglitz said yesterday in an interview with Bloomberg Radio. ``We were trying to make Americans understand how expensive this war was so we didn't want to quibble about a dime here or a dime there.'' His analysis comes as the Senate debates a Democratic plan to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq. The 2001 Nobel winner's initial estimate of $3 trillion drew criticism from Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, who said that the number ignores the price the U.S. would pay if Iraq became a terrorist state.