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Cost of Iraq War to top $1.25 trillion dollars says academic Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com September 20, 2005 The total cost of the Iraq War for the UK, the USA, Iraq and other nations is likely to top US$1.25 trillion dollars according to Keith Hartley, a professor at the University of York's Center for Defence Economics. Professor Hartley says the loss of world output due to the rise in oil prices up to 2010 will amount to $1 trillion, while the military cost to America alone will be more than $260 billion by the end of 2006. Britian's military share will top $7.5 billion. Hartley suggests that it would have been more cost effective to simply pay former ruler Saddam Hussein to leave. "If, at the outset, the Americans anticipated the Iraq operation would cost $100 billion, they could have given Saddam Hussein and his family $20 billion to go, $50 billion to Iraq and still have had $30 billion left over," says Hartley. You can read more of Hartley's comments in his June 22 press release [an error occurred while processing this directive] This article is adapted from an University of York press release. The contents do not necessarily reflect the views of mongabay.com. News index | RSS | Add to MyYahoo! Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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