El costo de la guerra en Irak: $3,000,000,000,000 de dólares

Esto es, 3 BILLONES de dólares (3 millones de millones) y pudiera llegar hasta los 7 BILLONES. ¿Qué se podría hacer con ese dinero en educación, empleo, infraestructura, ciencia? Y pensar que sólo se ha usado en estos 7 años de fascismo norteamericano en destrucción y muerte.

Coming up on the five-year anniversary of the invasion, a new estimate from a Nobel laureate puts the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at more than $3 trillion.

That estimate from Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz also serves as the title of his new book, “The Three Trillion Dollar War,” which will hit store shelves Friday.

The book, co-authored with Harvard University professor Linda Bilmes, builds on previous research published in January 2006. The two argued then and now that the cost to America of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is wildly underestimated.

When other factors are added — such as interest on debt, future borrowing for war expenses, continued military presence in Iraq and lifetime health care and counseling for veterans — they think that the wars’ costs range from $5 trillion to $7 trillion.