Iraq's 100-Year Mortgage

The price tag for caring for the Americans who fight this war could exceed what it costs to wage it.

BY LINDA J. BILMES | FEBRUARY 19, 2008

March 19 marks the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The American death toll -- nearly 4,000 soldiers in Iraq and almost 500 in Afghanistan -- is well known. Much less attention has been paid to the enormous number of troops who have survived and returned home with serious injuries. Here, the numbers are truly staggering. More than...

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Linda J. Bilmes, a lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, is co-author, with Joseph E. Stiglitz, of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008).

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 SUBJECTS: IRAQ, MILITARY