Official estimates traditionally put the costs of the Iraq War at less than $1 trillion while the Department of Defense has calculated it to be about $800 billion. However, a recent report by some economists suggests the actual costs are more than $2 trillion.
Host Carmen Russell-Sluchansky spoke with Catherine Lutz, professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, and Lawrence J. Korb, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress where he focuses on the federal budget, military and national security, to discuss the true economic costs of the Iraq war.
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