Civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq
Min: 59082
Max: 64916Iraq Body Count
U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3204After four years, America’s cost for the war in Iraq has reached nearly $500 billion — more than the total for the Korean War and nearly as much as 12 years in Vietnam, adjusting for inflation. The ultimate cost could reach $1 trillion or more.
Matt Crenson, Business Week
The two best-known analyses of the war’s costs agree on this figure, but they diverge from there. Linda Bilmes, at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate and former Clinton administration adviser, put a total price tag of more than $2 trillion on the war. They include a number of indirect costs, like the economic stimulus that the war funds would have provided if they had been spent in this country.
David Leonhardt, New York Times
post by Ray Watkins
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