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The Consumer Guide to the Cost of War in Iraq: An Internet Reader

How much information on cost of the war in Iraq is available online?

March 24, 2003

How much information on cost of the war in Iraq is available online?

Bacon, Kenneth H. and George Rupp, "Unready for the Aftermath," Washington Post, 7 March 2003, p. A33. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54153-2003Mar6.html

Bush, George W., "President Discusses the Future of Iraq," Speech to the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., 26 February 2003. http://www.whitehouse.gov/ news/releases/2003/02/20030226-11.html

Congressional Budget Office, "An Analysis of the President's Budgetary Proposals for Fiscal Year 2004," March 2003, p. 4. www.cbo.gov

Hadley, Steve, "The Plan for a Postwar Iraq" Washington Post, 28 February 2003, p. A23. Available at: http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washfile/geog/nea/iraq&f=03022801. trq&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml

Hartung, William D. and Michelle Ciarrocca, "Buying a Coalition," The Nation, 17 March 2003. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030317&s=hartung

House Budget Committee, Democratic Staff, "Assessing the Cost of Military Action Against Iraq: Using Desert Shield/Desert Storm as a Basis for Estimates," 23 September 2002. http://www.house.gov/budget_democrats/ analyses/spending/iraqi_cost_report.pdf

International Development Committee, "Preparing for the Humanitarian Consequences of Possible Military Action Against Iraq," Fourth Report of Session 2002-03, Volume 1, House of Commons (UK). http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200203/ cmselect/cmintdev/444/444.pdf

Kosiak, Steven M., "Potential Cost of a War with Iraq and its Post-War Occupation," Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 25 February 2003. http://www.csbaonline.org/

McKibbin, Warwick J., and Andrew Stoeckel, "The Economic Costs of a War in Iraq," Brookings Institution, 7 March 2003. http://www.brookings.edu/ views/papers/mckibbin/20030307.htm

Nordhaus, William D., "The Economic Consequences of a War with Iraq," in War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences and Alternatives, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002. http://www.econ.yale.edu/~ nordhaus/homepage/AAAS_War_Iraq_2.pdf

Nordhaus, William D., "Iraq: The Economic Consequences of War," The New York Review of Books, 5 December 2002. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15850

Novaks, Robert, "Playing Texas poker, Bush bets all on Iraq", Chicago Sun Times, 6 March 2003. http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak061.html

O'Hanlon, Michael, "Shinseki Vs. Wolfowitz," The Washington Times, 4 March 2003. Available at http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/ohanlon/20030304.htm

O’Hanlon, Michael, “War Against Saddam’s Regime: Winnable but No Cakewalk,” Testimony to House Armed Services Committee, 2 October 2002. http://www.brookings.edu/ views/testimony/ohanlon/20021002.htm

Pickering, Thomas R. and James R. Schlesinger, Co-chairs, Eric Schwartz, Project Director, "Iraq: The Day After," Report of an Independent Task Force on Post-Conflict Iraq, Council on Foreign Relations, 2003 http://www.cfr.org/pdf/Iraq_DayAfter_TF.pdf

Senate Budget Committee, Democratic Staff, "Fact Sheet on CBO Cost Estimate of Potential Military Conflict with Iraq," 1 October 2002 http://budget.senate.gov/democratic/press/2002/fact%20sheet_Cost%20of%20Iraq%20War10.02.02.pdf?index=3822&sequence=0

Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Testimony on Iraq Reconstruction by Dr. Gordon Adams, Dr. Phebe Marr, Ms. Sandra Mitchell, and Mr. Eric Schwartz at: http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/hrg030311a.html

Ward, Celeste Johnson, "Potential Costs of a War Against Iraq," Center for Strategic and International Studies, 20 November 2002. http://www.csis.org/features/iraq_costofwar.pdf