Concerned that the Bush administration might be misleading everyone about the Iraq war’s costs, just as it had about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and connection with Al Qaida, I teamed up with Linda Bilmes, a budget expert at Harvard, to examine the issue. Even we, as opponents of the war, were staggered by what we found, with conservative to moderate estimates ranging from slightly less than a trillion dollars to more than $2 trillion.
我担忧正如在伊拉克的大规模杀伤性武器以及与基地组织的联系上一样，布什政府可能在伊拉克战争的费用上欺骗了所有的人。我与哈佛大学的预算专家贝尔姆斯合作来研究这一问题。即使是作为反战人士，我们也被我们的发现所震惊。伊拉克战争保守以及温和的费用估计介于稍微低于1兆亿美元到多于2兆亿美元之间。