The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict - Softcover

Stiglitz, Joseph; Bilmes, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141039442 ISBN 13: 9780141039442

Publisher: Penguin, 2008

Synopsis

The Three Trillion Dollar War will be a devastating reckoning of the true cost of the Iraq war - quite apart from its tragic human toll - which the Bush administration has estimated at $50 billion, but which Stiglitz and Bilmes will show underestimates the real figure by approximately six times. The authors expose the gigantic expenses which have so far not been officially accounted for, 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 perspective, the authors investigate the cost in lives and damage within Iraq and the Middle East generally. With chilling precision, they calculate what the money spent on the war would have produced had it been further invested in the growth of the economy, in the US and around the world, and in infrastructure building. Stiglitz and Bilmes write in simple language, which makes the details they present, and the sums they add up, all the more disturbing. This book will change forever the way we think about the Iraq war - and about the cost of war generally.

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Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0141039442
• ISBN 13: 9780141039442
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384