Iraq war batters US economy

Adla Massoud, Aljazeera.net
Five years since the the US began its invasion of Iraq, the world's largest economy is struggling to cope with the cost - estimated to be at least $500 billion and rising. Two prominent US economists say the Iraq war and the US economy are now inextricably linked. Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel-prize winning economist, and Linda Bilmes, authors of "The Three Trillion Dollar War," argue that the Iraq war will cost the US at least $3 trillion and possibly as much as $5 trillion... continua / continued