Wednesday, December 20, 2006

103 - True cost of Iraq war

In an article in issue 1016 of Rolling Stone an ecomomist calculates the total cost, past and future, of the Iraq war as follows.
The war it self.........................................725b
Health care and disability benifits for vets..127b
Hidden increases in defense spending........160b
Economics losses from injured vets...........355b
Higher oil prices.......................................450b
Total cost............................................. 2.267trillion

1 comment:

Mike said...

To bad the invaluable insite has been wasted.