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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.704431
EAN: 9780393334173
ISBN: 0393334171
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: September 22, 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Editorial Review:
"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 GalbraithAmerica 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 Harvard University's Linda J. Bilmes reveal a wide range of costs that have been hidden from U.S. taxpayers and left out of the debate about our involvement in Iraq. That involvement, the authors conservatively estimate, will cost us more than $3 trillion."Stiglitz and Bilmes have clearly demonstrated the need for Congress and the administration to ensure that those making sacrifices today will see those sacrifices honored in the future."—Dave W. Gorman, executive director, Disabled American Veterans
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A must read
Great detailed analysis of the comprehensive cost of this war. 3 trillion is still conservative.
Rating:  - $3 trillion would have been cheap
This book puts forth a lot of numbers and tries to put a price on certain things that should not have to have a price on it: such as the price of a human life. But it needs to happen because obviously this country does not value the lives of its soldiers.
This book backs up the sentiment that veterans feel, that their life, sacrifices and the sacrifices of their family are for not. Stieglitz shows how our disabled veterans even if paid at the maximum rate, will not be compensated ... Read More
Rating:  - The Costs of War - A Flawed Presentation
It's no secret that war is expensive. The question a society at war must ask itself is, Just how expensive is it going to be? And, Is the war worth it? With "The Three Trillion Dollar War", Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes take a crack at answering these questions with respect to the current conflict in Iraq.
Taking the second question first, Stiglitz and Bilmes stake out their position in the book's very first sentence: "By now it is clear that the US invasion of Iraq was a terrible ... Read More
Rating:  - Is It Really a '$3 Trillion War'?
This is from the news analysis piece that was posted at Fox News on Monday, June 16, 2008 under the title shown above. The links to the sources are in the original piece.
What is the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? To many, the answer, at least from 2001 through 2007, is $473 billion -- about a quarter of total defense expenditures over those years. It has averaged less than 1 percent of GDP.
$473 billion is probably an underestimate simply because the fighting has ... Read More
Rating: - Absurd.
The authors have abandoned any reasonable definition of the word "cost" for this book, which is more of a liberal hatchet-job than it is a realistic accounting for the cost of the war.
They have taken every liberty with the concept of "cost" in an effort to paint as negative a picture as possible. The result is book which which is sensational, yet offers no meaningful analysis of the true cost of the war.
In effect, the authors have thrown in everything but the kitchen sink, ... Read More
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