DN!: Exclusive: The $3 Trillion War: Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:58:23 -0500 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST February 29, 2008 = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now! has immediate job openings for: TV Producer/Editor For more information visit http://www.democracynow.org/about/jobs. = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * EXCLUSIVE - The Three Trillion Dollar War: Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Economist Linda Bilmes on the True Cost of the US Invasion and Occupation of Iraq * One week after President Bush rejected charges the war in Iraq has hurt the US economy, a new book puts a conservative estimate of the warıs cost at $3 trillion so far. In their first national broadcast interview upon their bookıs publication, Nobel laureate and former chief World Bank economist, Joseph Stiglitz, and co-author Linda Bilmes of Harvard University say the Bush administration has repeatedly low-balled the cost of the war‹and even kept a second set of records hidden from the American public. 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