Nobel Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz | "True Cost Of Iraq War"

Of course this won't matter to the Bushistas because this has -from day one- been a war for profiteering.

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Three trillion dollars - Nobel winning economist tabulates true cost of Iraq war

Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel prize-winner in economics, says the Iraq war has cost $3 trillion so far. According to the Guardian, "three trillion could have fixed America's social security problem for half a century."

Some time in 2005, Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, who also served as an economic adviser under Clinton, noted that the official Congressional Budget Office estimate for the cost of the war so far was of the order of $500bn. The figure was so low, they didn't believe it, and decided to investigate. The paper they wrote together, and published in January 2006, revised the figure sharply upwards, to between $1 and $2 trillion. Even that, Stiglitz says now, was deliberately conservative: "We didn't want to sound outlandish."

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What the Iraq War has Cost Your District

The cost of the Bush Iraq war broken down into each district. Find out what it cost yours.


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Iraq War has cost $450 Billion

Ten Billion a month! Just imagine what could have been done with that kind of money in a sane world? Ten billion a month NOT going to Halliburton, Bechtel, Blackwater Security, Carlyle Group. You know Bush cronies, and the corporate/pentagon war machine. From Kos:

"Think about what $10 billion a month would mean to protecting Americans from terrorism, improving security at our ports and airports, and increasing border security. Think about what $10 billion a month would mean for the 47 million Americans who don’t have health insurance, for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, and for the education of our children. Think about what $10 billion a month would mean to lowering the deficit so that future generations are not burdened with debt."
--Nancy Pelosi

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