Anybody got an extra $2 trillion lying around to get our government out of this financial mess called Iraq? A Nobel Prize winning economist from Columbia and a Harvard lecturer sat down and ran the numbers while specifically looking at the long-term projected health care costs of the thousands of wounded US soldiers. Even their most conservative estimates put the war at over a trillion dollars which is a tad bit higher than the worst case scenario of $100 to $200 billion that was floated by the Bush administration in pre-war talks. It is said that 30% of troops have developed mental problems within months of returning from the front, and 20% have suffered severe brain and spinal injuries. These costs to American soldiers and the US taxpayer will linger with us long after we close the door on this war.

Source: Yahoo News