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Bob Hebert writes for The New York Times: "Most of the time we pretend it’s not there: The staggering financial cost of the war in Iraq, which continues to soar, unchecked, like a rocket headed toward the moon and beyond. Early last year, the Nobel-Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimated that the "true" cost of the war would ultimately exceed $1 trillion, and maybe even $2 trillion. Incredibly, that estimate may have been low."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120407M.shtml

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Now and Forever

By Bob Herbert

Seriously. How long do we want this madness to last?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18846.htm



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