Aspect Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

The war in Iraq has been very, very expensive - partly because the Administration tried to keep the apparent costs down. But the benefits…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes…

— Chalmers Johnson

We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs…

— Earl Blumenauer

The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small…

— Lawrence B. Lindsey

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

— Chalmers Johnson

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I…

— Paul Bremer

Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no…

— Richard Perle

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much…

— Robert Foster Bennett

We're not getting a good return on investment on all that money we're pumping into the intelligence community. One of the first things I…

— William Binney

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite…

— Brent Scowcroft

I find it scandalous not only that there was so little discussion of the costs of the Iraq war before we went to war…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

— Alan Greenspan