said by Cyron :

Are those figures adjusted for inflation?

said by bmn :

Something must be wrong with your PC since the GWB Bio should have popped up if you had used the "I'm feeling lucky" function. MM is ranked second for that search after GWB.

said by Karl Bode :

It's not lies:

»www.csmonitor.com/2006/0110/dailyUpdate.html

said by pnh102 :

It's not lies:

»www.csmonitor.com/2006/0110/dailyUpdate.html
The report is still based on a few key assumptions (e.g. that our troops would remain till 2010 and such). These ssumptions are not guaranteed to be true.

said by Karl Bode :

I'm not planning on deconstructing the work of nobel prize winning economists with my liberal arts degree

said by pnh102 :

The report is still based on a few key assumptions (e.g. that our troops would remain till 2010 and such). These assumptions are not guaranteed to be true. Furthermore, the article points out that Dr. Stiglitz is a vocal critic of the war in Iraq, so we cannot be sure that his analysis is completely unbiased. I'm not rejecting what the fellow writes simply because of this, but just as it would be hard for many opposed to the President to believe the President when he says we are making progress, its hard for most people to believe those who vocally oppose the President to believe research that magically appears to advance their own agendas.

I'd like to see if Dr. Stiglitz did any research into the costs of the Kosovo, Bosnia or Somalia conflicts. Heck, as we're still in Kosovo and Bosnia with no end in sight, it would probably stand to say that these conflicts will eventually cost us more than a "temporary" stay in Iraq.

said by kamm :

Are you really this clueless? US never had any kind of large-scale operation neither in Kosovo nor Bosnia.

said by rgillis70 :

Considering current costs include reconstruction it becomes very hard to compare.

said by mikef1 :

We are STILL in Germany and I think still in Japan, that might have changed recently.