Nobel Prize Economist Puts Long Term Costs of Iraq War at $7 Trillion (Merged)

RebSaint said

“People like Joe Stiglitz lack the courage to consider the cost of doing nothing and the cost of failure. One can’t even begin to put a price tag on the cost to this nation of the attacks of 9/11,” said White House spokesman Tony Fratto, conceding that the costs of the war on terrorism are high while questioning the premise of Stiglitz’s research."

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Actually you can come close to a cost of 9/11, and you can add to it the cost of the policy mistakes made in its name.

As it was we were not "doing nothing" we went to Afghanistan, attackend and broke up the group responsible for 9/11 and then inexplicably let the mastermind escape to sanctuary in Pakistan.

We attacked the perpatrators and addressed the issue. That's not "doing nothing."

Iraq had nothing to do with it. It's a boondoggle tacked on and justified by 9/11. Thankfully for the government most voters can't even locate Iraq on the map, let alone work out that they didn't have a connection to 9/11.