September 30, 2013 Marketplace
In his final report to Congress this month, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, came to the conclusion that the $60 billion the U.S. spent on rebuilding in Iraq produced too few results.
September 18, 2013 The Nation
"Perhaps the best account of casualties was part of the Costs of War report prepared by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies…”
August 29, 2013 Scientific American
"Doing nothing seems immoral, but military intervention poses terrible risks. Those who support military actions against Syria should check out the ‘Costs of War’ project."
July 15, 2013 Georgetown Journal
“Watson Institute at Brown University has produced a report titled ‘Costs of War’ which gives the costs of the Iraq War as 189,000 deaths and upwards of $2 trillion dollars…”
July 9, 2013 The National Interest
“Brown University’s Costs of War project has estimated that American military expenditures on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan will ultimately cost over $4 trillion dollars—fully one quarter of the entire U.S. national debt.”
July 2, 2013 Counter Punch
“According to the Costs of War project … at least 330,000 people have been killed by direct violence in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. This does not include hundreds of thousands of other deaths that occurred because of the wars.”
June 13, 2013 The Atlantic
“The latest reckoning of the costs of that war come to a staggering $2.2 trillion … —an amount that could turn just about anyone into a deficit hawk.”
May 17, 2013 American Anthropologist
"The Costs of War project advocates increasing governmental transparency of those aspects of war that can be counted…as a basic means of providing the context for a democratic debate about war."
April 25, 2013 NPR
“The invasion has cost U.S. taxpayers about $2 trillion. Taking care of veterans from the Iraq War and rebuilding Iraq will cost additional billions.”
March 20, 2013 The Providence Phoenix
“…with the tenth anniversary of the war upon us, Lutz and a team … have developed something more robust: a comprehensive, by-the-numbers look at the human, financial, and social impacts of the conflict.”
March 19, 2013 Time
“A recent study out of Brown University estimated that the war has cost a total of 190,000 lives and $2.2 trillion so far. These costs could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next 40 years — simply staggering figures.”
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.”
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.”
March 19, 2013 PBS News Hour
“A report released this month put the cost of Iraq’s reconstruction at more than $60 billion dollars so far, that on top of $1.7 trillion in estimated war costs, according to a recent study by Brown University.”
March 19, 2013 MSNBC
“The report reveals that 190,000 lives have been lost due to the war—70% of them, Iraqi civilians—and has cost the United States $2.2 trillion—44 times higher than what the U.S. Office of Management and Budget estimated.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”