Iraq War: Projected Cost $1 - 2 Trillion Dollars

libertad · Jan 11, 2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1681119,00.html

The consevative estimate for the Iraq War will be conservatively between $1 to 2 TRILLION DOLLARS......

Alternative energy would have been a far better place to spend the money....

just21 · Jan 11, 2006

I don't understand why the US doesn't drill for all in Alaska and the continental shelf in the gulf. Are you waiting for the price to go up?

hairdresser · Jan 11, 2006

who cares.

newbunch · Jan 11, 2006

Quote from libertad:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1681119,00.html

The consevative estimate for the Iraq War will be conservatively between $1 to 2 TRILLION DOLLARS......

Alternative energy would have been a far better place to spend the money....

Or taxes could have been lowered. Or the deficit reduced. Or they could have given it all to me....

local_crusher · Jan 11, 2006

Iraq's reserves are >112 bln barrel.

That makes only $10 per barrel.

Still quite a deal for the Bonesmen around the Bush clan.

kingcobra · Jan 11, 2006

osama won.

EqtTrdr · Jan 11, 2006

Quote from kingcobra:

osama won.

big time

Copernicus · Jan 11, 2006

Quote from libertad:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1681119,00.html

The consevative estimate for the Iraq War will be conservatively between $1 to 2 TRILLION DOLLARS......

Alternative energy would have been a far better place to spend the money....

send Bush the bill to his farm in Texas

Businessman · Jan 11, 2006

The market loves the war, that $2 trillion will go to buisness.

tradingbug · Jan 11, 2006

Quote from Businessman:

The market loves the war, that $2 trillion will go to buisness.

It is funny because I see from a techinical analysis standpoint, that their was a direct effect of going to war and the stock market beginning a new bull market.

I am sure the market going up after the war and the end of the bear market has produced much more wealth than the 2 trillion spent in Iraq.

I am very new to this and am not really sure. Unfortunately, I am not able at this time to get enough historical data for the wars before this one.