Joseph Stiglitz Quotes About Iraq War

Quotes about: Iraq War

• There is a clear and strong link between the economy's present woes and the Iraq war. The war was at least one of the factors contributing to rising oil prices - which meant Americans were spending money on imported oil, rather than on things that would stimulate the american economy. Hiring Nepalese contractors in Iraq, moreover, doesn't stimulate the American economy in the way that building a school in America would do - and obviously doesn't have the long term benefits.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Strong, War, School

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• The country has large unfunded liabilities - social security, health care, and there will have to be some adjustments to these problems. What is scary though is how much worse things have gotten in the last eight years, and the Iraq war is one of the main factors.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, War, Scary

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• The national debt will have increased by approximately 50% in just eight years! We will have created a new unfunded entitlement - disability and health care benefits for the huge number of disabled veterans returning from the Iraq war.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Care, Veteran

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• In fact, for just about 1/6 of the cost of an Iraq War, we could have put the social security system on sound financial footings for the next 50 to 75 years. The problems can be managed - but not if we continue to fight this war for another 80 years.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Fighting, Financial

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Thinking, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I find it scandalous not only that there was so little discussion of the costs of the Iraq war before we went to war - this was, after all, a war of choice - but even five years into the war, the Administration has not provided a comprehensive accounting of the war.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Choices, Iraq War

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• The only people benefiting in Iraq war are George Bush's Jr. friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy and the global economy an enormous disfavor, but his Texan friends couldn't be happier.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Oil, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• This Iraq war has been the most "privatized" war in America's history. It has seen the most extensive use of contractors. The contractors have increased the costs; but they have been necessary - the military simply could not have done it on their own. we would have had to increase the size of the military. But the George W. Bush Administration wanted America to believe that it could have a war, essentially for free, without raising taxes, without increasing the size of the armed forces.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Military, War, Believe

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Oil, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I'm writing from New Zealand - a country that decided from the beginning that the War was wrong, and chose not to participate in Iraq War.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, War, Writing

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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