Iraq, $5,000 Per Second?
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: March 23, 2008
The Iraq war is now going better than expected, for a change. Most critics of the war, myself included, blew it: we didn’t anticipate the improvements in security that are partly the result of last year’s “surge.â€
The improvement is real but fragile and limited. Here’s what it amounts to: We’ve cut our casualty rates to the unacceptable levels that plagued us back in 2005, and we still don’t have any exit plan for years to come — all for a bill that is accumulating at the rate of almost $5,000 every second!
More important, while casualties in Baghdad are down, we’re beginning to take losses in Florida and California. The United States seems to have slipped into recession; Americans are losing their homes, jobs and health insurance; banks are struggling — and the Iraq war appears to have aggravated all these domestic woes.
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Iraq, $5,000 Per Second?
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- Iraq, $5,000 Per Second?
- "So, I have a wager for you. If no significant amounts* of WMD show up before the next election, I?ll vote for a Democrat. " - ROBVG
- re: Cheney doesn’t care about the American public’s views on the war
- And for what? (n/t)
- 4000 Americans dead, well over 30,000 Americans wounded, a total cost of ~3000 billion dollars....
- 4,000
- re: 4000 Americans dead, well over 30,000 Americans wounded, a total cost of ~3000 billion dollars....
- Your words
- Kinda convienient that we dont keep track of civilian deaths, isn't it
- Civilian deaths
- BTW, For those playing at home that makes 50,000 iraqi civillians dead just in the last 2 years as aknowledged by TB...
- "Coalition forces were responsible for about 600 of about 26,000 civilians killed. In 2007, Coalition forces accounted for about 1,200 of 24,000 civilians killed."
- Shall we also consider the millions of displaced citizens?
- Civilian deaths
- And the $3 trillion? Still crap. (n/t)
- ugh, typo