The Iraq war will cost us 3 TRILLION DOLLARS!?!?!?!?-2/5

EXCLUSIVE - The Three Trillion Dollar War: Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Economist Linda Bilmes on the True Cost of the US Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
One week after President Bush rejected charges the war in Iraq has hurt the US economy, a new book puts a conservative estimate of the war's cost at $3 trillion so far. In their first national broadcast interview upon their book's publication, Nobel laureate and former chief World Bank economist, Joseph Stiglitz, and co-author Linda Bilmes of Harvard University say the Bush administration has repeatedly low-balled the cost of the war—and even kept a second set of records hidden from the American public. [includes rush transcript]

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[gladiadorextremo]

it is 3 trillion and 5 dollars the authors forgot to add in the bag of weed pres. bush bought to smoke with his people while he talks shit about america.

[IWantDemocracyNow]

what bag of weed costs 5 dollars? For all the shit he talks, he's gonna need a pound

[freakyfatdog]

1.7 Billion

3 Trillion

Incompetence Infinite

[mistressbladez]

The war has already cost three trillion dollars, the projection is well into the double digit trillions; as far as the a-hole who said in '03 that other countries were pledged to spend money on rebuilding Iraq, we find that what they pledged was to LOAN US that money, in high cost debt.

Yep, face it - we're broke - thanx to this s**tty war.

[mrbadguysan]

Selling what oil? You can't get any oil if all your equipment is constantly being blown up.

[Extremis48]

wow mistressbladez you could not of made a more stupid and inncorect comment. you have left me speechless

[gabbio9]

The U.S will fall and Canada will take it's place as a super power mwhahahaha! =P

[akhalif68]

Sadly & unfortunately the US objectives in protecting the "ËMPIRE" is now over-riding all over government priorities. And also doesn't consider the social & economic impact on other nations.

[freakyfatdog]

That would mean we were talking about conservative thieves. These are neo conservative thieves. Why earn what you can borrow?

[Khalijiana]

ok it costs u american, 3 TRILLION and 5 DOLLARS whatever, but what about the money that u r getting from selling the iraq oil??