Old news I know but I want to point my kids to this article when it ends up it really cost 5 trillion.
The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert. The study, which expanded on traditional estimates by including such costs as lifetime disability and healthcare for troops injured in the conflict as well as the impact on the American economy, concluded that the US government is continuing to underestimate the cost of the war.
Because you know that the earlier estimates were from those with a corporate background that don’t consider lifetime care of employees or the environment – externalities, right?
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