postmortem of a "dismal failure"

A FAILED "TRANSITION": THE MOUNTING COSTS OF THE IRAQ WAR

A Study by the Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy In Focus

Full report with citations (.pdf document)

"Just the Numbers" factsheet - feel free to photocopy and share (.pdf document)


KEY FINDINGS
A Failed 'Transition' is the most comprehensive accounting of the mounting costs of the Iraq war on the United States, Iraq, and the world. Among its major findings are stark figures about the escalation of costs in these most recent three months of "transition" to Iraqi rule, a period that the Bush administration claimed would be characterized by falling human and economic costs.

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