Economic Consequences of a War on Iraq
Supadupa | 16.11.2002 22:11
William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, has published this month an analysis of the potential cost of the war with Iraq to the United States. His conclusion is summarized in his appeal to Barbara Tuchman's phrase-- 'the march of folly'
William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, and one of the leading economists in the world, indeed a potential Nobel Prize winner, has published this month an analysis of the potential cost of the war with Iraq to the United States in extenso at the web address below and in summarized form in the New York Review of Books. His conclusion is summarized in his appeal to Barbara Tuchman's phrase-- 'the march of folly'. Even the best case scenario, a repeat of the rapid victory of the kind involved in the first Gulf War, will send shockwaves cascading through the American economy. You can be sure that we in Britain (a) will have to pay higher taxes to allow Tony Blair to keep face with the Americans (it costs money to tag along with a superpower) (b) will also be shaken by an American economy which enters crisis.
Supadupa
Homepage:
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~nordhaus/homepage/iraq.pdf
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health consequences, and more
17.11.2002 22:24
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uranium and health crises emerging in Afghanistan
by pandora du project 2:54am Sun Nov 17 '02
Fresh data linking the use of uranium weapons in afghanistan and the emerging health crises there.
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Uranium Medical Research Center's latest reports published yesterday at:
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Reuters Health highlights deep concern for very high levels of maternal mortality in Afghanistan
in two recent reports
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Suspected connections between Uranium and severe illnesses
The possibility that endemic health problems may have been greatly exacerbated by spreading
uranium dust contamination, or that severe illnesses are direct results of the toxic and radiation
effects of Uranium dust, have not been addressed in any local medical reports. WHO, ICRC,
MSF and Oxfam were warned of this risk many months ago but the US and UK governments
have given repeated assurance that no depleted uranium weapons have been used in Afghanistan.
Similar fatal illnesses were reported in Bosnia and Kosovo within the first year after US bombing
in 1995 and 1999
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Urgent need for independent Uranium testing
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read about gulf war veterans suffering with serious health problems:
this article claims, that due to incomplete information and poor equipment, soldiers could not be protected from biochemical exposure, brought by missile attacks and as a consequence of the destruction of Iraqi military bases (which allegedly did not take place without contamination from dangerous content being stored there).
For Europe, this may indicate serious problems, as still exist with Kosova and Bosnia.
The bill is long:
Refugees, veterans, and also industrial workers and other personnel coming into the region, could get into health trouble many years later, and even bring home to their families infectious germs, or contaminated material in their personal luggage.
This can only be prevented by peacefully destroying biochemical weapons, and by general prohibition of DU weapons.
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"An autopsy of a Canadian veteran who died showed depleted uranium in the lung and bone."
another article about the possible impact on health and economy...
I can't believe that the leading powers of Capitalism, who must weigh all their actions in terms of gain and loss, are trading "absolute" values like Good and Evil, to push the world into such costly wars that have an outcome that is VERY relative. To sell the Balkan wars as a great success by NATO and US, means a slap into the face, for too many Europeans.
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