{"id":935,"date":"2008-10-19T09:28:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=935"},"modified":"2009-04-05T09:29:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T14:29:52","slug":"the-cost-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2008\/10\/19\/the-cost-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA while back former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz calculated that the total cost of the War on Iraq and Afghanistan would be a cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/guest_contributors\/article3419840.ece\">three trillion dollars<\/a>. The video below explains what that money is spent on:\n<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/c3hp8Qaf_q0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/c3hp8Qaf_q0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\nSupposedly it was only World War II that ended the Great Depression. I don&#8217;t think the War on Iraq has done the same&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz calculated that the total cost of the War on Iraq and Afghanistan would be a cool three trillion dollars. The video below explains what that money is spent on: Supposedly it was only World War II that ended the Great Depression. I don&#8217;t think the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,83,45],"tags":[556,557],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economiccrisis","category-war-on-afghanistan","category-war-on-iraq","tag-joseph-stiglitz","tag-three-trillion-dollar-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}