Conflicts

Some of the costs of the Iraqi war

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He wrote an essay "What the Iraq War Is About" for an anti-war website "Antiwar.com." ₁ Because of copyright restrictions we cannot reprint his essay here; however, we are allowed to paraphrase parts of his essay.

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Added to the above are economic costs. U.S. Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz estimates that the full cost of the Iraqi war will eventually be between three and five trillion dollars. The war has been responsible for part of:

Finally, Roberts suggests that the:

"... moral costs are perhaps the highest. The moral costs are perhaps the highest. All of the deaths, injuries, and economic costs to the U.S. and its victims are due entirely to lies told by the president and vice president of the U.S., by the secretary of defense, the national security adviser, the secretary of state, and, of course, by the media, including the 'liberal' New York Times. All of these lies were uttered in behalf of an undeclared agenda. 'Our" government has still not told 'we the people' the real reasons 'our' government invaded Afghanistan and Iraq."

"Instead, the American sheeple [sic] have accepted a succession of transparent lies: weapons of mass destruction, al-Qaeda connections and complicity in the 9/11 attack, overthrowing a dictator and 'bringing democracy' to Iraqis."

"The great, moral American people would rather believe government lies than to acknowledge the government's crimes and to hold the government accountable."

Reference used:

1. Paul Craig Roberts, "What the Iraq War Is About," AntiWar, 2008-APR-23, at: http://www.antiwar.com/