| The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict | 
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Category: Book
Authors: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Linda J. Bilmes
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Label: W. W. Norton
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 0393067017
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.704431
EAN: 9780393067019
ASIN: 0393067017
Publication Date: March 3, 2008
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The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion?and counting?rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House.
Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes casts a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, including not only big-ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans?for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global focus, the authors investigate the cost in lives and economic damage within Iraq and the region. Finally, with the chilling precision of an actuary, the authors measure what the U.S. taxpayer's money would have produced if instead it had been invested in the further growth of the U.S. economy. Written in language as simple as the details are disturbing, this book will forever change the way we think about the war.
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 Eye opening. December 26, 2008
This book really opened my eye to just how badly the Bush administration and the government in general has handled this war. I am taking the suggested reforms in Chapter 8 to my US congresswoman Ginnie Brown Waite to see if she agrees with the reforms.
3 Trillion Dollar War October 29, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book was originally shipped in a timely manner, yet it did not make it to me; I talked to a customer service rep who was happy to ship it to me via UPS. I am impressed with that; the product itself was in good condition and arrived quickly after I contacted customer service about the missing item.
A very important work, generally convincing October 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found the authors' cost accounting of the war convincing in everything except the war's supposed link to the rise in global oil prices. They fail to give any explanation of why the war should contribute significantly to the rise. But this failure does not detract from the power of the overall argument. If every US household had received an accurate monthly bill for this war from the start, support for it would have evaporated long ago.
Needs a Revision October 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book opened my eyes as to the business of this current war. However; given what has transpired with the global economy in just the past couple of weeks, I would like to see a revised, updated book that accounts for what influence, if any, the war with Iraq has played with the most current events.
A must read September 30, 2008
Great detailed analysis of the comprehensive cost of this war. 3 trillion is still conservative.
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