The War in Iraq

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This paper reports that the National Priorities Project (NPP) estimates that, as of March 2007, based on congressional appropriations, the cost of the war in Iraq is over 410 billion dollars. The author points out that there has been a waste of billions on "reconstruction" because of a lack of strategy and unclear lines of authority between the Defense and State Departments, which has led to confusion and disarray. The paper reports that Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz indicates that the total costs of the Iraq war could top the $2 trillion mark assuming that the troops will remain in Iraq until 2010 and including the health care costs of injured returning soldiers.

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"The NPP indicates that with the money spent so far on the war in Iraq, the United States could have paid for 54,369,196 children to attend Head Start for one years. With those $410 billion, Americans could have built 3,696,054 affordable housing units. With that money the U.S. could have hired 7,113,800 teachers to work in public schools for one year. And the NPP data shows that the money spend so far on the Iraq war could have provided major medical health coverage for 245,801,075 children for a year."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bennis, Phyllis, and Leaver, Erik. "The Iraq Quagmire: The Mounting Costs of War and the
• Case for Brining Home the Troops." The Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy inFocus. (August 31, 2005): Retrieved 20 March 2007 from http://www.ips-dc.org/iraq/quagmire/
• Blimes, Linda. "Soldiers Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Long-Term Costs ofProviding Veterans Medical Care and Disability Benefits." Harvard University / John F.Kennedy School of Government. Retrieved 21 March 2007 fromhttp://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP07-001.
• Kansas City InfoZine. "Iraq War Supplemental: Troops and Costs." Retrieved 20 March 2007From http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesview/sid/21758/.
• National Priorities Project. "The War in Iraq Costs." Retrieved 19 Nov. 2006 from http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=come_wrapper&Itemid=182.

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