negative affects of media on American politics

[takeanumber]

I'll agree with Sweal on the last post. They're different cases.

1000 dead though.

The hardest part of environment economics is calculating the value of a human life. Let's be conservative and say that each soldier would have produced AND consumed one million dollars over the rest of their life, had they been able to live it.

1 000 000 000.

That's 1 Billion dollars.

That pales in comparison to the 200 billion spent, or the 13 billion wasted on Haliburton, but you know...it's a lot of money.

It's a lot of life.

And 700 of them didn't need to die if Bush had planned things better.

But no.

He didn't.

There was no plan.

And that's the reason why Bush should go.

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Why isn't the media focusing on Haliburton more?

Moreover, why arn't the Republican Humpers on these boards concerned about Haliburton?

[theloniusfleabag]

Another interesting thing in the news this morning...

"U.S. Rules Out Iraq Women Prisoner Release" , then

"Bush hopes Allawi can reassure U.S. voters". These were back to back on 'Yahoo News' this am.

The juxtapositioning is telling. In the second line, Allawi is given the 'credibility' to reassure US voters, but in the first line it tells you he has no power in his own country! Mr. Bush might as well use a hand puppet called "Mr. Hat" to reassure the voters. The same goes for Afghanistan, where Mr. Karzai is merely 'the mayor of Kabul'.

[August1991]

The hardest part of environment economics is calculating the value of a human life.

This comment is off topic but this article is interesting to read. The "value" would be closer to $10 million.

It is one thing to take risks with one's own life and quite another to do this with someone else's. Hugo might say that is the inherent immorality of the State. But people delegate such decisions to medical doctors every day.

[Han]

Has America really liberated Iraq or have they really pushed them backwards and launched the Iraqese into a large civil war? Long before the first Gulf War, Iraq was a very rich nation, much unlike now. Is America a boon or a curse? Wherever America sticks their nose in almost always turns rotten. Look at the Vietnam War. Lots of death over a long period for what? The Korean War. Death again and nothing changed. Look at the Taiwan issue. This has made Chinese hate Americans and plus the Americans signed a treaty with the Chinese not to interfere in national affairs. Look at Israel and Palistine. And now look at Iraq. I suppose good would come out?