Will the economy improve if Iraq is invaded?

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Because if it'll stop all this cost-cutting by everybody I'm all for it

― dave q, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

technical answers from experts on this sort of thing appreciated

― dave q, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Won't it raise the price of petrol in the interim, though?

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The economy won't improve de-facto, but it will stop being the lead item on the news.

― Pete, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It already stopped being the LEAD item in OUR news.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dave q, I find your take on this repulsive, but to try to answer your question: in the short run it might improve. If Bush wants to wage war after war and alienate U.S. allies, in the long run it's going to speed up the decline of the U.S. as a super-power. That may or may not be a good thing, but there's no guarantee that anything better is going to take our place.

― DeRayMi, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A much better question: will my sex life improve if Iraq is invaded?

― Aimless, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

economy = sex life now, Aimless

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Increased goverment receipts of oil extraction tax and oil comapny tax receipts versus price gouging by oil companies.

― Ed, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Increased goverment receipts of oil extraction tax and oil comapny tax receipts versus price gouging by oil companies. that's in the UK at least.

― Ed, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or was dave q thinking of the Iraqi economy?

― DeRayMi, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty-two years pass...

Well..

How the Iraq War turbocharged the militarization of police: pic.twitter.com/QQMki8e2t9
— Stephen Semler (@stephensemler) March 24, 2025

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 25 March 2025 18:04 (one year ago)

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