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Originally Posted by lhopp77
Speaking of idiots--seems some don't even understand English. In the link I see words like, "could", "might", etc. Seems to be a speculative article to me with no basis for fact. Some "smaller suppliers have been contacted" about building supplies?????? Nothing shows the "cause and effect" that my wall hide donating friend seems to think exists. I still stand by my statements about prices tracking building starts. Tons of proof that is the cause---like I said any idiot can figure that out by just a few minutes of research--maybe I should have said "most idiots".  
Oh by the way--even if significant lumber for Iraq was bought it would mostly have been from suppliers in Africa and Asia to save on shipping costs. Again, considering the small amount versus millions of housing start demands there would be little, if any, impact on domestic prices. Questions--how much plywood do we buy from China? (answer might surprise you) Where does most of our domestic lumber come from?
Admit it--you just bashed Bush again because of your political beliefs for something he had nothing to do with. 
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No I bash Bush because he's a horrible president. I bashed Clinton just as much for his lack of focus on foreign policy but at least he had 1 front he was somewhat successful on.
You're the idiot Lee if you do not understand that the Pentagon placed an order for 660,000 sheets of plywood from our friends from the north the same month that we went into Iraq. It is in the budget my friend. Just with every war the cost of buidling materials increases. We get about 5% of our lumber from China nationwide. Most of their supply goes to Japan. As for your theory on building starts which is just that a half cocked theory. More building supplies tend to be used when the housing market slows as people stay put but do renovations. That is fact, not theory.
There has never been an American war in which wood prices did not rise, Iraq is not an exception to that, even the Spanish American War let to an artifical rise in building materials.
Oh and no, we do not get anything but hardwood from Africa. Not that we couldn't but the Pentagon doesn't like change. They go to their past sources.
1/2 OSB the weeks prior to Iraq $7ish.
1/2 OSB the weeks after the start of Iraq $15ish a sheet.
Nuff said my friend if you don't like the truth that isn't my problem. If you don't have a suggestion on a wall for my daughter's playhouse. Again, WHY ARE YOU HEAR. Don't you have some Rush to listen to while on pain pills?
Oh yeah and should Republicans have the guts to put a real man forward this coming election year, there is finally one I'd vote for that is running for President, then I'd vote Republican, just as I have plenty of times in the past. FYI I've never voted for a Democrat in my life either. Politics and truth are two very funny things. You make plenty of assumptions but reality just doesn't jive with your fuzzy math.