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Last link for the morning, I swear: another
Times article, this time based on the thesis that a Bush-instigated
attack on Iraq won’t just distract from the country’s
economic problems, it will actually exacerbate them.
“Eleven years ago, the Persian Gulf war … cost the United States
and its allies $60 billion and helped set off an economic recession
caused in part by a spike in oil prices. For that war, the allies
picked up almost 80 percent of the bill. Today, however, as the Bush
administration works on plans to overthrow Saddam Hussein, the United
States is confronting the likelihood that this time around it would have
to pick up the tab largely by itself …”