The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (edit title)

Old Man In The Sea edited the books like this book of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict Wednesday, August 26 2009.

• Added Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq

Shelfari edited the description of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict Monday, August 3 2009.

• The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes casts a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, 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 focus, the authors investigate the cost in lives and economic damage within Iraq and the region. Finally, with the chilling precision of an actuary, the authors measure what the U.S. taxpayer's money would have produced if instead it had been invested in the further growth of the U.S. economy. Written in language as simple as the details are disturbing, this book will forever change the way we think about the war.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict Monday, August 3 2009.

• Added a contributor: Joseph E. Stiglitz: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Linda Bilmes: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict Friday, July 17 2009.

• ON MARCH 19, 2003, the United States and its "coalition of the willing" invaded Iraq.