http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2007-10-23-wacosts_N.htm First you depreciate the money, then you squander what's left. Thanks neocons
And whats even sadder is that it would only cost $1.2 Trillion if they paid for it themselves instead of borrowing all of the money. That interest is killer. But either way... a much higher tag than the original what? $50 Billion estimate?
I wish their was an easy and accurate way to find out how much money Bush, his family members, and friends have made in profits since 9/11... I know Bush Jr is probably forbidden from profitting off the war... but I am sure he is getting some very nice kickbacks as a thankyou for keeping them going, and probably a nice fat bonus for starting new ones.
There is definetly something fishy going on with the oil... even from the start it was the Iraqi oil that was going to pay for the $50 Billion original estimate.. how else besides stealing the oil and selling it would it be able to do that?
An absolute fortune, probably even more than we can imagine mate. The whole Bush/Clinton dynasty is rotten to the core. But their madness cannot just be measured in money, it can be measured in lives, American Soldiers lives, and thousands upon thousands of Iraqi civilians lives.
hm....original cost estimate by the administration -> $50 billion. Current estimated costs about 500-700 billion Long term estimated costs 2.4 trillion 2.4 trillion/50 billion=48 George Bush was only off by 48 times the potential long term cost of the war. Now that is a guy I can put my faith in! Aside: the Gulf War cost about $88 billion in today's dollars. hm....didn't Cheney say something about a quagmire back in 1994?
I think he made the same kind of estimates about his own private companies and that was the reason those went bankrupt.
Are you still claiming the US takes oil from Iraq? Several times over the past year I've offered $50 via paypal to anyone who could show credible evidence that the US is taking/stealing oil from Iraq. In every case, the response was silence.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OFU7OG1&show_article=1 Of course, facts don't matter. BDS exempts people from accountability.
LOL GTech, we both know that Bush is very stupid, but even he is not stupid enough to release exactly how much he is profiting.
A denial of facts, followed by a conspiracy! RP supporters at their finest This would explain the 2% national support!
If the US is not or was not planning on stealing oil from iraq how the hell was oil from Iraq supposed to cover the original $50 Billion estimate? Either the US was taking the oil and selling it themselves, or the US was planning on forcing the new Iraqi government to pay them $50 Billion from the sales of oil... no matter how you look at it, the US is stealing oil from Iraq.
I believe the original comments about oil revenues were that oil revenues from Iraq would pay for much of the repair done during the war. All initial estimates were optimistic. The sense that the war would cost in the $50 billion range was based on a short war. The sense was that Iraq had a tremendous opportunity to increase oil production which had been dramatically low for many years in Iraq subsequent to the earlier wars it fought. The idea was that after a short successful war a new Iraqi regime would increase production and that production would cover much of the "limited amt of destruction of a short war". I don't believe there is evidence that the US is "stealing oil" from Iraq. As much as I'm against the war and dissatisfied with Bush I have seen no evidence of that published anywhere.
*BY reading this you agree to my disclaimer I'm not american, with that said. You think your president discloses every shady (or none shady) deal he makes, enforces, whatever you want to call it? And that the information would be available on internet? If you do, then well.. Your loss. Disclaimer: I don't care about what the American gov does, I don't take sides bla bla bla.
Who is US? Is the people in USA? I don't believe it either since most of them can't even find Iraq on the map. Is it US government? US government doesn't have any oil company, so what are they going to do with it even if they steal it. They can't just come out and say we stole some oil, so people bring your SUVs and we will fill it up for you. So I don't think so either. Is American oil companies? Are they in Iraq and the future control of oil and it's price is beneficial for them? Do they like to control as much oil as they can? Do they pay money to government in form of tax and to politicians as contribution? The answer to all the above is YES.
I don't think it is the US government itself that is taking control fo the oil... obviously as you say they would not be able to benefit from this... I think it is George W Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of the gang that used to be in the oil business who are taking advantage of their positions to make massive profits for their friends and families off of the Iraqi oil. If anyone here is so sure that no one in the US is making profits off of iraqi oil than please feel free to offer me any solid evidence as to who is actually profiting from iraqi oil.