$3 trillion is just a part of the cost
Long after the war ends, America will continue to pay a staggering price.
http://www.thestar.com/article/346563
From Information Clearing House
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Estimates of Iraq War Cost Were Not Close to Ballpark
David M. Herszenhorn, of The New York Times, reports: "At the outset of the Iraq war, the Bush administration predicted that it would cost $50 billion to $60 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, restore order and install a new government. Five years in, the Pentagon tags the cost of the Iraq war at roughly $600 billion and counting. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and critic of the war, pegs the long-term cost at more than $4 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office and other analysts say that $1 trillion to $2 trillion is more realistic, depending on troop levels and on how long the American occupation continues."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031908O.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+Stiglitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+M.+Herszenhorn
http://www.thestar.com/article/346563
From Information Clearing House
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Estimates of Iraq War Cost Were Not Close to Ballpark
David M. Herszenhorn, of The New York Times, reports: "At the outset of the Iraq war, the Bush administration predicted that it would cost $50 billion to $60 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, restore order and install a new government. Five years in, the Pentagon tags the cost of the Iraq war at roughly $600 billion and counting. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and critic of the war, pegs the long-term cost at more than $4 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office and other analysts say that $1 trillion to $2 trillion is more realistic, depending on troop levels and on how long the American occupation continues."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031908O.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+Stiglitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+M.+Herszenhorn
rudkla - 17. Mär, 10:50
