The Hidden Cost of War (the three trillion dollar war)
2008 October 2
GOOD has released a fantastic graphical video detailing the rising costs of war and military spending by the United States. The video starts off by saying that in 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated that a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion and that 5 years later the actual cost has been roughly 10 times that figure.
The costs projected in this video are taken from research done by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes in their book “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict”.
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