Len Hart, the Existentialist Cowboy, argues that "the cost of Bush's war on Iraq passed the one trillion dollar mark some time ago but has yet to support or prove the old lie that 'wars are good for the economy'. Where is the evidence that the $Trillion$ spent murdering and torturing people in a nation that was, in fact, no threat to the United States, has created a single job on the home front? In fact, those $Trillion$ blown up in Iraq are lost forever --not having created a single new job."

A common theme that has emerged in critiques of my "Wartime Economist" columns on Antiwar.com is that war is good for an economy.