Financial Costs of the War in Iraq

March 27, 2008, 10:00am – 11:30am

About This Event

In 2002, before the war in Iraq began, White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey offered an "upper bound" estimate of the cost of the war in Iraq to be $100 to $200 billion. Nearly 4,000 American and between 100,000 and 600,000 Iraqi lives later, the direct cost of the Iraq war is approaching $1 trillion and the total cost may well exceed $3 trillion.

Panelists Linda Bilmes of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Steve Kosiak, Vice President at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, will discuss both the direct and indirect costs of the war in Iraq. At a time when the American economy is near recession, panelists will also discuss the impact of the war's record financial cost on the American economy.

Featured Panelists:

Linda Bilmes, Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Steve Kosiak, Vice President for Budget Studies, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
 

Moderated by:

Lawrence Korb, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Location

Center for American Progress
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005