{"id":15716,"date":"2011-06-29T10:51:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T16:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15716"},"modified":"2011-06-29T10:51:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T16:51:36","slug":"ipa-study-estimates-costs-of-u-s-wars-in-iraq-afghanistan-and-pakistan-at-3-7-trillion-225000-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15716","title":{"rendered":"IPA: Study Estimates Costs of U.S. Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan at $3.7 Trillion, 225,000 Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Institute for Public Accuracy<br \/>\nWednesday, June 29, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reuters reports: &#8220;When  President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from  Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America&#8217;s  wars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Staggering as it is, that figure grossly underestimates the total  cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the U.S. Treasury and ignores  more imposing costs yet to come, according to a study released on  Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The final bill will run at least $3.7 trillion and could  reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research project &#8216;Costs of War&#8217;  by Brown University&#8217;s Watson Institute for International Studies.&#8221; See the study at <a href=\"http:\/\/costsofwar.org\/\">http:\/\/costsofwar.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuracy.org\/release\/study-estimates-costs-of-u-s-wars-in-iraq-afghanistan-and-pakistan-at-3-7-trillion-225000-killed\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Study Estimates Costs of U.S. Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan at $3.7 Trillion, 225,000 Killed&#8221;<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Institute for Public Accuracy Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Reuters reports: &#8220;When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America&#8217;s wars. &#8220;Staggering as it is, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15716\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-45u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15719,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions\/15719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}