The Three Trillion Dollar War

Democracy Now by Joseph Stiglitz, Linda Bilmes, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez | Feb. 29, 2008 (Interview)
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Economist Linda Bilmes on the True Cost of the US Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

Joseph Stiglitz, and co-author Linda Bilmes of Harvard University say the Bush administration has repeatedly low-balled the cost of the war--and even kept a second set of records hidden from the American public. Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business
Topics: Bush Administration, U.S. Economy, War in Iraq
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

Stiglitz and Bilmes provide a most thorough and expansive fact checking on the administration estimate of the cost of the illegal invasions and occupations. The corporate pro-war press has been largely absent from such investigations.

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    The Times by Joseph Stiglitz, Linda Bilmes | Feb. 23, 2008 (Investigative Report)
    The Bush Administration was wrong about the benefits of the war and it was wrong about the costs of the war. The president and his advisers expected a quick, inexpensive ...
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