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