Our analysis starts with the $500 billion that the Congressional Budget Office openly talks about, which is still ten times higher than what the administration said the war would cost. Its estimate falls so far short because the reported numbers do not even include the full budgetary costs to the government.
国会预算局公开谈论的费用是5000亿美元，仍然是布什当局所说的战争费用十倍。我们的分析以此为起点。由于报告的数字甚至并不包含政府的全部预算费用，因此国会的估计仍然大为偏低，而预算费用仅仅是整体经济成本的一小部分。