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

On 19 March 2003 the United States invaded Iraq.- The President and his advisors expected a quick, inexpensive conflict.- It turned out to be one of the costliest mistakes ever made.- This devastating reckoning of the true costs of the war holds them to account.- Here renowned economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes expose the gigantic expenses that never made it into official calculations:- From bloated private contracts to staggering interest payments, from the soaring price of oil to the long-term care of veterans and damage to the world economy as a whole. This clear-eyed, angry and chilling account shows how we will all pay the price for a disastrous conflict for many years.- Offering tough reforms for the future, it will change the way you think about the cost of war.