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CBO: Iraq Will Cost U.S. Trillions

by David Kurtz
09.20.07 | 10:06 am

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost of a long-term U.S. occupation of Iraq in the trillions of dollars in a new report released this morning. The study appears to make some pretty conservative assumptions in calculating cost estimates.

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