The Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has revealed that $6 trillion is the cost of the war in Iraq.
It makes for sobering reading; especially when you see what $6 trillion can buy you.
The servicemen and women out there are doing a great job which they know to be dangerous.
However, it’s always the civilian casualties who really pay the cost of war and I don’t expect to see much funding going to help the orphans and damaged of Afghanistan and Iraq.
These have been, and will be written into history, hopefully, as two of the most despicable acts of commodity grabbing, cleverly disguised as the facade of instilling democracy and fighting the war on terror.
There are many ‘terrorists’ in the world but it depends a lot on your point of view. If there was any justice, Bush and Blair would be tried in the Hague as war criminals and thieves.
But that is unlikely to happen isn’t it?
Aroha 