Some questions about the War on Terror?

Question

I am doing a research paper about the economic effects of the War on Terror and I'm finding a whole lot of information about the actual cost but I also need the projected costs of withdrawing troops, and the possible implications of associated actions. If you know of any credible sources that have reported on something along those lines I would really appreciate the link.

Also, I've heard that we're no longer supposed to refer to it as the "War on Terror" but that is the only name I have come across so far. Does anyone know what the heck they're calling it these days? Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

Ask Barack. Senator Barack Obama has your answer!  

Answer 2

Ever since March 2003, we have been calling it the illegal occupation of Iraq.

Answer 3

It's some sort of global struggle now apparently.(resists urge to laugh)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4719...

Actually I just noticed that was dreamt up in 2005 so maybe there's yet another new and improved phrase.I'll be back.

The Long War would you believe?http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/...

Well that's two rethinks so far.Better check incase there's any more.

Found this interesting point to ponder-

And Harry Smith, of CBS News, also asks if the "rebranding" is part of an effort to distance the administration from early statements that the war in Iraq was part of the war on terror.

Well the War In Iraq is a war. But, does this mean these guys are admitting that when they started it, it really wasn't a war on terror because there weren't any terrorists in the first place?

Google this when you get home tonight. It sounds to me like the administration is trying, in the words of a marketer, to "reposition a brand." Americans were more than happy to support the war in Iraq because they believed, and old polls bare this out, that it was part of the greater war on terrorism.

Support for that war has plummeted. So do we change its name and assume that no one will notice or that it doesn't matter? How about we go back and call the war in Iraq "The Perilously Dangerous Mission To Unseat Saddam Hussein And Install Democracy In A Country Full Of People Who Really Hate And Distrust Each Other"?(http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/07...

Doesn't quite trip off the tongue so well,lol.