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	<title>Three Trillion Dollar War</title>
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		<title>Veterans Disability Costs exceed Stiglitz-Bilmes estimates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest disability benefits costs are even higher than we predicted.   And this will grow higher, because more than 700,000 new veterans have already claimed, with an average of 8 conditions per claim. http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/27/news/economy/veterans-disability/index.htm?iid=HP_LN]]></description>
		<link>http://threetrilliondollarwar.org/2012/04/27/veterans-disability-costs-exceed-stiglitz-bilmes-estimates/</link>
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		<title>New CBO study confirms high cost of treating new veterans with PTSD and TBI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study from CBO confirms what we wrote in 2008 and subsequently &#8212; that the volume of veterans seeking medical care from the VA, and the cost of treating them, is driving enormous budget increases at VA, in part due to the expense of treating troops with PTSD, and/or TBI. Highlights of the CBO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threetrilliondollarwar.org/2012/03/03/new-cbo-study-confirms-high-cost-of-treating-new-veterans-with-ptsd-and-tbi/</link>
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		<title>What have we learned from Iraq?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What have we learned from Iraq? Boston Globe THIS MONTH, after nearly nine years, the American war in Iraq is finally drawing to a close. At its peak, 170,000 Americans were stationed in more than 500 military bases across the country. In total, more than 2 million US troops have served in Iraq; now we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threetrilliondollarwar.org/2011/12/07/what-have-we-learned-from-iraq/</link>
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		<title>Five Painful Lessons from the Iraq War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After nearly nine years of war, the US is withdrawing from Iraq.  More than two million American troops have been deployed to the Iraq theater.  At its peak the US had more than 500 military bases across the country.  We are now down to our last 18,000 troops, who are leaving by the hundreds every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threetrilliondollarwar.org/2011/11/25/five-painful-lessons-from-the-iraq-war/</link>
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		<title>Defense Dept is now the ONLY federal government agency to flunk its audit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the CFO Act was enacted in 1990, the federal government has been making steady progress on tracking where federal dollars go.   This process of obtaining clean audits on federal dollars is an important part of budget transparency and the ability to at least understand what we are buying for our tax dollars.  Today, 23 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threetrilliondollarwar.org/2011/11/21/defense-dept-is-the-only-federal-government-agency-to-flunk-its-audit/</link>
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		<title>Ten Years in Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The US has now passed the milestone of ten years involvement in Afghanistan.   Here is a thoughtful analysis of where we are, and the difficulties ahead:   retired Army General Stanley McChrystal speaking  at the Council on Foreign Relations.   He says that the United States began the war in Afghanistan with a &#8220;frighteningly simplistic&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threetrilliondollarwar.org/2011/10/07/ten-years-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<title>New Op-ed in Los Angeles Times by Bilmes and Stiglitz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[America&#8217;s costly war machine Fighting the war on terror compromises the economy now and threatens it in the future. By Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz September 18, 2011 Ten years into the war on terror, the U.S. has largely succeeded in its attempts to destabilize Al Qaeda and eliminate its leaders. But the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threetrilliondollarwar.org/2011/09/18/new-op-ed-in-los-angeles-times-by-bilmes-and-stiglitz/</link>
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		<title>Recent commentary by the authors on the costs of 9/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US response to 9/11 contributed to causes of current debt crisis Linda Bilmes writes in the Christian Science Monitor that the costs of military engagement in Afghanistan and Iraq account for well over one-quarter of the increase in US national debt since 2001. Financing wars and defense build-ups in this way is an historical aberration. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threetrilliondollarwar.org/2011/09/13/recent-commentary-by-the-authors-on-the-costs-of-911/</link>
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		<title>Rising US death toll in Afghanistan: lessons from history</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 2011 has been the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since the conflict began nearly 10 years ago, with 66 US troops dead this month.  This includes the deadliest attack on US forces since the beginning of the conflict, when 30 US service members, including 17 Navy SEALS, were killed when Taliban forces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threetrilliondollarwar.org/2011/08/30/rising-us-death-toll-in-afghanistan-lessons-from-history/</link>
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		<title>Gloomy reports detail huge fraud, waste and corruption in contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest reports from those studying ongoing US operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are gloomy in every respect. Stuart Bowen, Special Inspector General for Iraq,  characterizes Iraq as &#8220;less safe than one year ago&#8221;. As Mr. Bowen points out,  June was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in more than two years.  Attacks on civilians [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threetrilliondollarwar.org/2011/07/30/gloomy-reports-detail-huge-fraud-waste-and-corruption-in-contracts-in-iraq-and-afghanistan/</link>
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