Research by Brown University finds higher-than-expected long-term costs for Washington's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Last Modified: 29 Jun 2011 16:39
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US spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has already cost at least $3.2 trillion, and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, far higher than previous estimates, according to a new study released by Brown University.
In 2008, Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz published a book called The Three Trillion Dollar War which included deficit spending and medical care in the overall cost.
Human cost
Casualty figures are well-documented: 6,051 US soldiers have been killed, along with roughly 2,300 contractors and 18,000 members of the Iraqi and Afghan security forces.
Civilians have suffered far more, with at least 137,000 of them killed since 2001 - a figure the report says is almost certainly an underestimate.
MY commentary, to this article To this cost, you must add, at least the cost for the consumers in USA, of the increases in the Price of the Commodities. Only in oil, they pay at least US$40 more for barrel. That MEAN, 2 Trillion of Dollars, half for the producers in USA and half for SAUDI ARABIA, from where 15 inhabitants participate in the September 11, 2001, attack. What irony¡¡¡
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