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[Wolfger]

On 5/30/07, Robert Adkins <radkins at impelind.com> wrote:

>     The Iraq War isn't anywhere near the scale of WWII.
>
>     In certain parts of the country, the economy is certainly booming
> due to the Iraq War. There's a new military vehicle that is built at a
> plant somewhere in the south. (I heard a story about it on NPR.) It's
> called the MRAP and the company building it has increased it's size
> exponentially since the start of the Iraq War.

Sure. It's helping on a personal scale, but definitely not on a
nationwide scale. One look at the price-per-gallon ought to tell you
what a devastating effect this war is having on our economy overall,
not to mention the billions of dollars that are being wasted, which
could be put to much better use. I don't think "a plant somewhere in
the south" compares to that.

>     If the Iraq War was on the scale of WWII, then we'd be seeing a far
> greater boost to the overall economy.

Sure. The more Americans you kill, the greater the demand is for new workers.

> >>     Unless you want to ignore the historical realities of World War II...
> >
> > I guess you want to ignore the not-so-historical realities of the Iraq War.
> >
>     Unless you want to ignore the scale of the conflict...

Scale. Sure. The Iraq war is bad for the economy. Scale it upwards,
and it would be devastating. :-)

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