US lawmaker Blames Recession on the Iraq War

US lawmaker Blames Recession on the Iraq War

04.13.08 posted by jason 140 views no comments
Most in the US are linking the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the declining housing market as the key factors that has taken the US to the brink of a recession. However, John Yarmuth, Democrat from Kentucky, thinks otherwise, saying the cost of the Iraq war, "is not only linked to our economic skid, but is a leading cause of it." The US currently spends $12 billion a month on the war.
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