40 - Iraq: More Expensive Than Vietnam, And The Right-Wing Gladly Reaps The Benefits / How To Respond To Right-Wing Insults

BLAST THE RIGHT

Jack Clark

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4.7 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2006

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The skyrocketing costs of the Iraq War don't bother right-wingers, in fact quite the contrary, because these expenditures further two of the right's main goals. What are those goals? Hint: greed, and cutting off assistance to the "least of these," are involved.Right-wingers spew out at progressives the same insults over and over again. How do I suggest responding? We'll go through a doozy of

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0:00.0	Music
0:19.6	Greetings.
0:20.6	This is Podcast No. 40 of Blast the Right.
0:24.0	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com.
0:27.7	The main segment today will be about how the burgeoning costs of the Iraq War are just
0:37.9	what the right wing wants.
0:39.9	We'll also spend some time with Klem, or rather an email from Klem, who isn't very friendly
0:47.1	towards me as you'll find out.
0:49.7	Oh, let's get right into it.
0:52.6	In this first segment, I'm going to talk about the skyrocketing cost of the Iraq War and
0:59.0	how the right wing really feels about spending such enormous sums of money on it.
1:06.2	My sources here are the Associated Press, ABC News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston
1:13.3	Globe, and the British newspaper The Independent.
1:18.2	So how expensive is the Iraq War?
1:23.2	Quote, the cost in treasure continues to rise from $48 billion in 2003 to $59 billion in
1:33.1	2004 to $81 billion in 2005 to an anticipated $94 billion in 2006 according to the Center
1:42.8	for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
1:46.4	Annual war costs in Iraq are easily outpacing the $61 billion a year that the United States
1:53.5	spent in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972 in today's dollars.
2:00.7	Quote, in total, the Vietnam War wound up costing $584 billion in 2006 dollars.
2:10.3	Iraq will easily exceed that.
2:15.1	More expensive than the Vietnam War.
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