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01/06/2006
New Study Suggests Economic Cost Of Iraq War Much Larger Than
Previously Recognized
From: Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in
Space
http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2006/1/5/11510/30624
A new study by two leading academic experts suggests that the costs
of the Iraq war will be substantially higher than previously
reckoned. In a paper presented to this week's Allied Social
Sciences Association annual meeting in Boston MA., Harvard budget
expert Linda Bilmes and Columbia University Professor and Nobel
Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz calculate that the war is likely to
cost the United States a minimum of nearly one trillion dollars and
potentially over $2 trillion.
The study expands on traditional budgetary estimates by including
costs such as lifetime disability and health care for the
over16,000 injured, one fifth of whom have serious brain or spinal
injuries. It then goes on to analyze the costs to the economy,
including the economic value of lives lost and the impact of
factors such as higher oil prices that can be partly attributed to
the conflict in Iraq. The paper also calculates the impact on the
economy if a proportion of the money spent on the Iraq war were
spent in other ways, including on investments in the United
States.
"Shortly before the war, when Administration economist Larry
Lindsey suggested that the costs might range between $100 and $200
billion, Administration spokesmen quickly distanced themselves from
those numbers," points out Professor Stiglitz. "But in retrospect,
it appears that Lindsey's numbers represented a gross underestimate
of the actual costs."
The Allied Social Sciences Association meeting is attended by the
nation's leading economists and social scientists. It is sponsored
jointly by the American Economic Association and the Economists for
Peace and Security.
01/06/2006
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
DigitalGlobe of Longmont, CO is being awarded a $24,000,000 firm
fixed price contract modification. This award is within the
previously established $500,000,000 contract ceiling. The supplies
to be procured are high resolution commercial satellite imagery.
The performance period is Feb. 1, 2006 through Jan. 31, 2007. At
this time, $2,000,000 FY06 O&M funding has been obligated. The
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, is the contracting
activity (NMA30103C0001/P00053).
Space Imaging of Thornton, CO is being awarded a $24,000,000 firm
fixed price contract modification. This award is within the
previously established $500,000,000 contract ceiling. The supplies
to be procured are high resolution commercial satellite imagery.
The performance period is Feb. 1, 2006 through Jan. 31, 2007. At
this time, $2,000,000 FY06 O&M funding has been obligated. The
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, is the contracting
activity (NMA30103C0002/P00039).
ORBIMAGE of Dulles, VA is being awarded a $12,000,000 firm fixed
price contract modification. This award is within the previously
established $500,000,000 contract ceiling. The supplies to be
procured are high resolution commercial satellite imagery. The
performance period is Feb.1, 2006 through Jan. 31, 2007. At this
time, $2,000,000 FY06 O&M funding has been obligated. The
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, is the contracting
activity (HM157304C0003/P00022).
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