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Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service: According to a new report by a prominent Harvard University researcher, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost taxpayers between four and six trillion dollars, making them the most expensive conflicts in US history.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15422-report-iraq-afghanistan-wars-will-cost-us-4-6-trillion-dollars



Billions of US tax dollars potentially funding Afghan terrorism

The'''alarming'' findings were greeted with calls for urgent action to mend the weak links in US regulations.

http://rt.com/usa/terrorism-afghan-report-us-752/


From Information Clearing House

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The $6 trillion wars

The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss

03/29/13

Your children, and your grandchildren, will be paying billions upon billions of dollars for George W. Bush s criminally misguided wars and for Barack Obama s ill-advised escalation of the war in Afghanistan, according to a new report. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost as much as $6 trillion when all is said and done, the report says...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/173589/6-trillion-wars


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=regulation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=taxpayer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Lobe
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Dreyfuss
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