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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsThe Economic Cost of the War
By Ed Brayton
Here's a report on a new study by a Nobel prize winning economist that estimates the enormous economic cost of the Iraq war:
In a book to be published tomorrow Nobel prize winning Professor Joseph Stiglitz has found that the Iraq war has now cost a staggering one and a half trillion pounds.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...The long-term hidden costs which include such items as medical care and pensions for wounded soldiers mean that it will eventually surpass the two and a half trillion pound cost of the Second World War.
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 04, 2008 (boomark / email).
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