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The Hidden Cost of War
Topic Started: Nov 13 2008, 09:19 PM (224 Views)
JFK
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I just got this via email from Green Hawks from SecondLife. Enjoy.

http://www.good.is/?p=12104



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The Hidden Cost of War

  • Video by: Matt Owens , MacKenzie Fegan, Andrew BouvĂ©, Rus Garofalo, Michael Schaubach, Lindsay Utz, Morgan Currie, Jason Bishop | Music by: Audio Dregs Recordings

  • Posted: September 22, 2008 at 9:42 pm


In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is more than 10 times that estimate. So what's behind the ballooning figures? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme's exhaustively researched book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, breaks down the price tag, from current debts to the unseen costs we'll pay for many years to come. RESOURCES: The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict; War At Any Price? The Total Economic Costs of the War Beyond the Federal Budget. By the Joint Economic Committee; threetrilliondollarwar.org. Thanks to the authors for their support, and to W. W. Norton for permission to use the research conducted for the book.
Edited by JFK, Nov 13 2008, 10:08 PM.
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JFK
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Here is another on Internet Censorship created by the same people.


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Both are really well done videos. While I would like to see the math on the first video (it would be easy to skew some numbers in there for effect), its nice how they give a well rounded estimate on the total cost to society and not just the government's bottom line.
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hiphopopotamus
Nov 14 2008, 03:33 PM
Both are really well done videos. While I would like to see the math on the first video (it would be easy to skew some numbers in there for effect), its nice how they give a well rounded estimate on the total cost to society and not just the government's bottom line.
From this oversized graphic - http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/013/images/threetrilliondollarwar.jpg

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Ah, thanks.
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