War At Any Price?

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The Mahalo Top 7

1. Official Report: War At Any Price?  
2. Senate.gov: JEC Democrats
3. AP: Report Puts Hidden War Costs at $1.6T
4. The Washington Post: Republicans Seek Retraction of Report on Wars' 'Hidden Costs'
5. The Swamp: OMB chief says Iraq war cost estimate 'partisan'
6. House.gov: The Hidden Cost of War
7. YouTube: 'Hidden costs' behind skyrocketing price of war (Time: 6:25)

War At Any Price? News

• Google News: Hidden War Costs
• The Washington Post: Republicans Seek Retraction of Report on Wars' 'Hidden Costs' (November 14, 2007)
• AFP: US Republicans demand retraction of Iraq report (November 14, 2007)
  • Republicans issued a statement suggesting the report was a partisan attempt to manipulate public opinion and full of inaccuracies.

• The Washington Post: 'Hidden Costs' Double Price Of Two Wars, Democrats Say (November 13, 2007)
  • White House press secretary Dana Perino dismissed the report as an attempt to draw attention away from recent positive news from Iraq.

• AP: Report Puts Hidden War Costs at $1.6T (November 13, 2007)

• AntiWar.com: Inflation - The Hidden Cost of War (January 30, 2007)
  • According to House Representative Ron Paul, much of the war has been funded through supplemental spending bills which get passed independently of normal appropriations, a tactic which he believes is intended to hide the true cost of war from the American taxpayer.

Yellow:=Direct War Costs Red=Total Economic Costs (Image by Senate.gov)

War At Any Price? Background

• AEI: War in Iraq versus Containment
• House.gov: The Hidden Cost of War
• The Boston Globe: War's 'hidden cost' called heavy (January 14, 2005) 
• Los Angeles Times: The Hidden Cost of Iraq War (May 23, 2004)

War At Any Price? Blogs and Commentaries

• Capital Commerce: Is the Iraq War Costlier Than Doing Nothing?
• The Becker-Posner Blog: The Cost of the War in Iraq--Posner's Comment
• The Swamp: OMB chief says Iraq war cost estimate 'partisan'
• AlterNet: War on Iraq: Veterans' Suicides - a Hidden Cost of Bush's Wars
• Economist's View: "The Hidden Costs of the Iraq War"
• Indybay: Study Reveals Hidden Costs of Iraq War, Excerpt details cost to US families

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