United Press International
March 10, 2008
The United States’ total cost for the war in Iraq will reach $3 trillion, the authors of a new book on the subject say.
Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz claim in their book, “The Three Trillion Dollar War,” that past estimates were much too low.
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In an op-ed piece in The Washington Post Sunday, they recall when Andrew S. Natsios, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said U.S. taxpayers would kick in just $1.7 billion to rebuild Iraq, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld scoffed at a $50-60 billion price tag and former White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey weighed in at $100 billion to $200 billion.
Now, the Iraq war has become the second longest war in the history of the United States, behind Vietnam, and the second most expensive, behind only World War II, they said.
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