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The Joint Economic Committee Majority Staff has
just published a report on the Cost of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They estimate it could exceed $3.5 trillion.

"November 13: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) will join Joint Economic Committee
(JEC) Chairman Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), and JEC Vice Chair Carolyn
Maloney (D-NY) today released a new report exposing the hidden costs of
the war in Iraq. The Joint Economic Committee report investigates the
costs of the war in Iraq that are not included in direct budgetary
appropriations, including long term veteran's health care, foregone
investment, oil market disruptions and interest payments on borrowed war
funding. The JEC estimates these costs could total in the trillions of
dollars."


Joint Economic Committee -- "War at Any Price?-the Total Economic Costs
of the War Beyond the Federal Budget" and it is available at
http://jec.senate.gov/Documents/Reports/11.13.07IraqEconomicCostsReport.pdf



The press release includes a brief summary

http://jec.senate.gov/Documents/Releases/11.13.07IraqReportRelease.pdf


Individual charts are available as follows:

* The American Family Will Bear Heavy Burden to Pay for Wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan
http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/Chart2.pdf

* With No Change in Course, Total Costs Incurred per Family
Reach Almost $50,000 by 2017
http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/chart1.pdf

* The Projected Interest Costs of Iraq War Alone are Higher than
the Cost of Children's Health Program and Health Research and Training
http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/chart3.pdf

* Taxpayer Spending on Iraq War vs. Federal Spending on Other
Priorities
http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/chart4.pdf

* Breaking Down the Costs of War in Iraq
http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/chart5.pdf

* Total Economic Costs Under Future Scenarios
http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/chart%20a-1.pdf

* State-by-State Heat Map: States Bear Billions in Iraq War Costs
http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/state%20by%
20state%20new.pdf

The response from the Joint Economic Committee Republicans can be found
at http://www.house.gov/jec/news/2007/Nov/JEC%20GOP%20Response.pdf

They say the report should be withdrawn -- that it is politically
motivated and filled with errors and poor methodology.

A second press release from them indicates that some errors were quietly
corrected on the web version.
http://www.house.gov/jec/news/2007/Nov/JEC%20GOP%20Response%2011-14.pdf

The FBI has published the new edition of its report summarizing
terrorist activities in the US. It can be found at:


PDF -- http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terrorism2002_2005.pdf

HTML -- http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terrorism2002_2005.htm