Excellent video from Good based on the Senate Joint Economic Committee’s report “War at Any Price?: The Total Economic Costs of the War Beyond the Federal Budget”.
You could quibble with some of this math, especially the guesstimate of how long troops will stay in Iraq in the future, but it’s an excellent introduction to this particular set of calculations.
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