The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict – Linda J. Bilmes Nieuw

A New York Times Bestseller “This is a catalog [of costs] the Bush team never looked at. It’s a catalog that they still don’t want you to see.”―James Galbraith 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 Harvar…