Former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, author of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, are in town today. They'll be at a news conference in midtown to hit McCain on his support for a war without end in Iraq and what it is costing us here at home.
TODAY, Wednesday, September 24 at 10:15 AM on W. 57th between 10th and 11th Aves. (to the right of the CBS building), Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, renowned author of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, will blast John McCain for his continued willingness to spend countless billions on an endless war in Iraq at the expense of priorities in America, such as roads, schools and health care.
Ambassador Holbrooke is the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and member of the cabinet (1999-2001). He was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement (which ended the war in Bosnia), assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs (1994-96), U.S. ambassador to Germany (1993-94), assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs (1977-81), and a member of Averell Harriman's delegation at the 1968-69 Paris Peace talks on Vietnam.
In addition to his groundbreaking book on the costs of the Iraq War, Dr. Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton Administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. In 2008, he was appointed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to chair a Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Economic Progress.
We could never afford this awful war and haven't even begun to pay for it yet. Now we see that as the markets are collapsing all around us, John McCain is still hellbent to keep fighting it even as we still have close to 50 million Americans without health insurance, a crumbling national infrastructure and the wizards of Wall St coming to the taxpayer, hat in hand, and asking for another trillion dollars or so.
Enough.
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