Iraq war cost US more than $2 trillion – study

[Grandluxe]

Quote from Humpy:

There are still a lot of costs to come from fighting those waste of money wars !
The wounded and mentally strained veterans will cost for another 40 years.
How long will it take the Taliban to take over in Afghanistan after NATO leaves ? Say a couple of months ?

Should never have elected those dummies in the first place, should you ?
Maybe the Israelis appreciated it ?

All the veterans will be disabled and unemployed begging for a living.

 

[nitro]

Quote from mgabriel01:

Credibility of the source means a great deal IMHO
http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2013/03/warcosts

Ok, or if you prefer

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/14/iraq-war-cost-more-than-2-trillion_n_2875493.html

 

[hoodooman]

Nitro: The price of oil is not what you see at the MERC. The REAL price of oil is all the wars and deaths that pile up in order to keep the price of oil ARTIFIALLY LOW.

Oil should be $200 a barrel, minimum.
+1

If we keep up the oil company bullshit then the next shoe to drop will be a nuclear bomb detonated in Washington DC. You can put the whole thing in a basketball and one person can carry it here. No rocket required.

hoodooman
aeronautical engineer
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[d08]

Quote from nitro:

I am telling you one day something horrible is going to happen on a scale that makes 9-11 seem like a fire drill (no offense meant) :

"The Iran War - How It Will Begin"

http://rense.com/general83/irwar.htm

I thought it was fairly logical although simplistic, until I saw the main page of rense.com.
I'm so sick of the "us - good guys; them - bad guys" mentality. We as civilians are simply pawns in this game. Defense (or should I say attack industry?) is simply too big and needs reducing, the bigger it is the more wars there will be.

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from d08:

"... Defense (or should I say attack industry?) is simply too big and needs reducing, the bigger it is the more wars there will be.

Just as Eisenhower warned.

America's "warring" is more along the line of "justifiable deficit spending to inflate economic growth numbers.. to make incumbent politicians look good come reelection time."

Has often been stated... "The business of America is war".

Our sick warring policies are tolerated/endorsed by many countries because we give them money.

 

[Grandluxe]

Quote from d08:

I thought it was fairly logical although simplistic, until I saw the main page of rense.com.
I'm so sick of the "us - good guys; them - bad guys" mentality. We as civilians are simply pawns in this game. Defense (or should I say attack industry?) is simply too big and needs reducing, the bigger it is the more wars there will be.

But in low volatility markets, as traders we also secretly hope for war . Just yesterday on another trading forum, one of the hottest topics was :"Markets like these make me love terrorism".

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from Grandluxe:

"... Just yesterday on another trading forum, one of the hottest topics was :"Markets like these make me love terrorism".

How sick is that?? (Any trader worth his salt does not need death and destruction to make a buck.)

 

[nitro]

It depends on which side of the fence you sit, making markets or trend following. One is not anymore a trader than the other.

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from nitro:

It depends on which side of the fence you sit, making markets or trend following. One is not anymore a trader than the other.

Has to do with terrorism, how??

 

[Humpy]

Quote from Scataphagos:

How sick is that?? (Any trader worth his salt does not need death and destruction to make a buck.)

All this panic about terrorism has made many 100.000s of jobs in security on the borders, airports, making armoured vehicles, drones, bombs etc. etc.
If the terrorists suddenly gave up, a lot of people would be out of work. No wonder the CIA have been paying Taliban jihadi fighters. Britain & France want to arm the Syrian rebels while the Russians arm up Assad. The idiots in the middle kill each other and expend quantities of lead, roll on capitalism.

If things start slowing put in some Hollywood crap with lots of violence.