Cost of Iraq War: More than $2.2 trillion
March 19, 2013 UPI
“The Iraq War killed 190,000 people, 70 percent civilians and 4,488 U.S. service members and will cost the U.S. taxpayer $2.2 trillion, U.S. researchers say.”
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The battle comes home
March 19, 2013 The Providence Journal
“[At] least 190,000 people of many nationalities — including Iraqi citizens and foreign soldiers — died in the war, including 4,488 U.S. servicemen and women. War-related ‘indirect’ deaths, such as from disease, bring the total higher.”
10 years later, the Iraq war is still a failure
March 19, 2013 Yahoo News
“They [administration officials] said it would be cheap: $50 billion to $60 billion. It actually cost 31 times as much: $1.7 trillion, the Brown study says. And that's before an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans.”
'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later
March 19, 2013 WITF
“Consider 4,488 American service men and women died in Iraq. It's estimated some 134,000 Iraqi civilians were killed. The U.S. will spend more than $2 trillion on the war and reconstruction when all the figures are tallied.”
The Costs of War: 10 Years After Iraq Invasion, New Study Tallies the Massive Human, Financial Toll
March 19, 2013 Democracy Now
“On the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we look at a massive new report by a team of 30 economists, anthropologists, political scientists, legal experts and physicians about the Iraq War’s impact.”
The Legacy of the Iraq War? Anti-War Democrats and Rand Paul
March 18, 2013 National Journal
“The study also found that at least 134,000 Iraqi civilians died, although the Watson Institute says the death toll could be up to four times higher. An estimated 36,000 American military personnel were also killed or injured during the war.”
Iraq war cost: $6 trillion. What else could have been done?
March 18, 2013 Los Angeles Times
“A study by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies finds that the war has cost $1.7 trillion so far, with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans.”
Gene Healy: The Iraq War's unhappy anniversary
March 18, 2013 The Examiner
“A new report … tallies up the costs: nearly 4,500 U.S. troop fatalities, an eventual budgetary cost of some $3.9 trillion and more than 130,000 civilians as ‘collateral damage.’”
Looking Back At The Iraq War
March 18, 2013 On Point
Thousands of American servicemen and women and their families have paid – and many still pay – a steep personal price for the Iraq War.
Tenth anniversary of war in Iraq
March 18, 2013 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
“…according to the 'Costs of War' Project at Brown University in the US, at least 134,000 Iraqi civilians were killed, 4488 American service members died and a further 32,000 wounded.”
Human and financial costs of decade-long Iraq War analyzed in new study from Brown University
March 16, 2013 Daily News
“Stunning new statistics… show that the decade-long War in Iraq has resulted in at least 189,000 deaths and cost more than $2 trillion.”
Karl Rove's War
March 16, 2013 Huffington Post
“As we mark the tenth anniversary of the U.S. decision to invade Iraq, surely it makes sense to acknowledge the consequences of our conduct… the war's cost in treasure and blood: $6 trillion and at least 190,000 lives lost.”
Report: Iraq war costs U.S. more than $2 trillion so far
March 15, 2013 Salon
“A new study by the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University has made strides in quantifying the Iraq War ten years after the U.S. invaded.”
Study: Iraq war could cost US $6 trillion over next decade
March 15, 2013 Voice of Russia
“The study was released by Brown University. The war in Iraq has cost around $1 trillion to date, and the Brown study took into account the future cost of veteran's benefits and other factors.”
Iraq war costs U.S. more than $2 trillion: study
March 14, 2013 Reuters
“The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion.”
Iraq War Cost U.S. More Than $2 Trillion, Could Grow to $6 Trillion, Says Watson Institute Study
March 14, 2013 The Huffington Post
“The war has killed at least 134,000 Iraqi civilians and may have contributed to the deaths of as many as four times that number, according to the Costs of War Project.”
Baghdad bombings kill at least 22
March 14, 2013 The Guardian
“[It] was disclosed the US war in Iraq has cost $1.7tn with an additional $490bn in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6tn over the next four decades counting interest.”
'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later
March 13, 2013 89.3 KPCC
“A new study from Brown University puts the civilian death toll at 134,000; the deaths of U.S. military and contractors at 8,000 minimum; and the cost to U.S. taxpayers (before interest) at $2.2 trillion.”
The Insane and Devastating Costs of the War in Iraq
March 13, 2013 Gawker Media
“A new accounting from the Costs of War project at Brown University lays bare just how much blood and treasure ten years of the War in Iraq has cost.”