The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
by By Stiglitz, Joseph E. and Bilmes, Linda J.
Category: Political Science , Political Freedom

America has already spent close to a trillion  dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still  due—including staggering costs to take care of  the thousands of injured veterans, providing  them with disability benefits and health care.  In this sobering study, Nobel Prize winner  Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard University's  Linda J. Bilmes reveal a wide range of costs  that have been hidden from U.S. taxpayers and  left out of the debate about our involvement in  Iraq. That involvement, the authors  conservatively estimate, will cost us more than  $3 trillion.