[Vision2020] Vision2020 Digest, Vol 15, Issue 99

[donald edwards]

Curious Glen, how do the figures compute in the equation if you adjust the $500bil to $2 tril?
 
"Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and self-described opponent of the war, puts the final figure at a staggering $1 trillion to $2 trillion, including $500 billion for the war and occupation and up to $300 billion in future health care costs for wounded troops. Additional costs include a negative impact from the rising cost of oil and added interest on the national debt."
> >Kris Freitag> > >From: "Glenn Schwaller" <vpschwaller at gmail.com>> > >To: vision2020 at moscow.com> > >Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Federal Reserve Head Greenspan: Iraq Invasion> > >ForOil> > >Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:55:13 -0700> > >> > >The US net petroleum imports for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 > >amounted> > >to 4208, 4476, 4811, 5055, and 4968 million barrels per year, and 2454> > >million barrels from January through June of 2007. Over the same period > >of> > >time the Iraqi contributions were 168, 176, 240, 194, and 202 million> > >barrels per year, and 86 million barrels from January through June of > >2007.> > >(> > >http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbbl_m.ht> >m> > >). This constitutes 4%, 3.9%, 5%, 3.9 % 4.1% and 3.5% of our total oil> > >imports. A case for going to war if I've ever seen one.> > >> > >The current cost of the war is around $455 billion give or take, and if > >we> > >were to defray this cost by levying an excise tax on Iraqi oil imports > >from> > >2003 to the present, it would amount to around $507 a barrel. Assuming > >oil> > >imports remain steady over a 10 year period this would be about $51 a> > >barrel, and over 25 years, a little more than $20 a barrel. How can > >anyone> > >possibly justify paying an excise tax of $20 per barrel for 25 years > >simply> > >to ensure a cheap supply of oil from Iraq? Ludicrous! War for oil  > >total> > >nonsense. War for Israel  the real fulcrum of the Iraqi conflict.> > >> > >"The United States is strongly committed, and I am strongly committed, to> > >the security of Israel as a vibrant Jewish state. . . By defending the> > >freedom and prosperity and security of Israel, (we are) also serving the> > >cause of America." (President Bush: address to the American Israel > >Public> > >Affairs Committee, Washington DC, May 18, 2004).> > >> > >We have paid a high price in dollars, international prestige and in the> > >lives of our soldiers for the interests of a foreign state, and we will> > >continue to do so until the Jewish-Zionist hold on US political life is> > >finally broken.> > >> > > GS> > >From: "Glenn Schwaller" <vpschwaller at gmail.com>> > >To: vision2020 at moscow.com> > >Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Federal Reserve Head Greenspan: Iraq Invasion> > >ForOil> > >Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:55:13 -0700> > >> > >The US net petroleum imports for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006> > amounted> > >to 4208, 4476, 4811, 5055, and 4968 million barrels per year, and 2454> > >million barrels from January through June of 2007. Over the same period> > of> > >time the Iraqi contributions were 168, 176, 240, 194, and 202 million> > >barrels per year, and 86 million barrels from January through June of> > 2007.> > >(> > >
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