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2005-08-30 Home Front: WoT

Harvard, Yale say Iraq War More Expensive Than WW I

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Posted by Bobby 2005-08-30 12:10|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Did they include the benefit of foregone terrorist attacks on the U. S.? Didn't think so.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-30 12:57|| 2005-08-30 12:57|| Front Page Top

#2 The GDP fraction is the only relevant metric here. The rest is statistical sensationalism.

Posted by JAB 2005-08-30 13:13|| 2005-08-30 13:13|| Front Page Top

#3 And the costs of nukes going off in U.S. cities? Oh wait, Iraq won't nuke us anytime soon, so I guess you don't have to include those. Can I throw those costs in anyway if the bombs originate from say...Iran via Al-Qaeda? I can't wait for those estimates. (If you love to hate the Iraq war costs, your really gonna love the Iran War costs.) I already have my checkbook out for that hootenanny. Do you take posthumous checks Yale and Harvard?

Posted by Zpaz 2005-08-30 13:14|| 2005-08-30 13:14|| Front Page Top

#4 The GDP fraction is the only relevant metric here. The rest is statistical sensationalism.

That's why it is at the bottom. As soon as I started thinking about it I went right to the bottom and sure enough, there it was.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-30 13:27|| 2005-08-30 13:27|| Front Page Top

#5 The only times liberals are 'concerned' with spending by the Federal government is when a) it's done by the military or b) when it's done by a Republican administration. Since these two themes merge, the only surprise should be to wonder why this article didn't appear sooner.

Posted by Raj 2005-08-30 13:41|| 2005-08-30 13:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Back in my day, gas was a nickel and you could go to war without breaking the damn piggy bank! And we wore an onion from our belt! It was the style in those days!

/Grandpa Abe

Posted by BH 2005-08-30 14:44|| 2005-08-30 14:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Cost. The human factor is not quantifiable with any type of reasonable certainty is it. We don't know the true Cost of either war and never will. We don't know the Cost that would have been entailed in not acting either. Doesn't change the facts of what has happened. This exercise in soft science cross bred with a little politics by serious tinkers from academia is about as useful and welcome as vomit on your sidewalk. Yes, that's very nice, now go along and play with your toys nicely budgeting professor.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-08-30 16:22|| 2005-08-30 16:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah and if it lasts long enough it might even surpass the combined endowments of Harvard and Yale combined. I figure about 3010 should be about right.

Posted by tu3031 2005-08-30 17:55|| 2005-08-30 17:55|| Front Page Top

#9 as compared to the cost of a Yale or Harvard degree?

Posted by Greack Chort6944 2005-08-30 18:12|| 2005-08-30 18:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Want a more realistic estimate of how costly the war is? Compare increase in US Defense spending from 2000 to 2003,w/increase in Defence spending from 1916 to 1918,from 1940 to 1943,from 1949 to 1952.

Posted by Stephen 2005-08-30 19:34|| 2005-08-30 19:34|| Front Page Top

#11 According to the Britannica, there were 22 MILLION Allied casualties in WW I and 37 MILLION Central Powers casualties. These figures includes 14 million killed out of a total European population at that time of maybe 250 million. Give me a break, how could anyone in his right mind compare the slaughter that went on then to the relatively minor action going on in the middle east. It just goes to show that most moderns have absolutely no historical perspective. If you want to compare costs, look at the human cost.

Posted by Ulomomble Ebberesh6337 2005-08-30 22:26|| 2005-08-30 22:26|| Front Page Top

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