Studies: Iraq costs US $12B per month (AP)
Date : 09 Mar 2008 Category : World
Yahoo! News: World News
AP - The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book.