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Third, we will argue that such costs are inevitable and can be estimated to some extent in advance; therefore, the United States should make provisions for its war veterans at the time we appropriate money for going to war. We will recommend steps that can be taken to address this unfunded financial liability.

I. The Cost of War and Its Impact on the US economy

These full costs are not transparent anywhere in the system. Throughout the nine years of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has continued to use accounting tiffany accessories that focus at best on the budgetary costs of war for 10 years, even as the long-term accrued costs of the wars and their impact on the economy have grown more apparent. The only hint of the full costs of providing for military veterans is in the US Treasury's financial statements for 2009, in the little-read "statement of net costs" which uses accrual methods. According to this document, the US liability for burial and disability benefits for military veterans exceeds $1.3 trillion dollars. (Even this figure - although large - does not reflect the full liability, because it excludes medical care and other benefits). There is no provision anywhere in the budget for how this liability will be paid.

Consequently, the estimate of atlas jewelry costs that is presented to the public and the press is a partial snapshot, based on faulty accounting and incomplete data.

Our work, which is based entirely on government data, was intended to fill this void.

Two years ago we published The Three Trillion Dollar cushion jewelry: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, in which we estimated that the total cost to the United States - including military expenditures through 2017, and lifetime health care and disability costs for returning troops, as well as economic impacts to the United States - would be $3 trillion[i]. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, but subsequent investigations by both the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Economic Committee of Congress found our estimate to be broadly correct. To ensure the credibility of our analysis, we deliberately used conservative assumptions. As we will explain today, the empirical data that has come to light since the publication of The Three Trillion Dollar War elsa peretti jewelry that our cost projections were excessively conservative, and that the war has had far-reaching economic consequences. In particular, the costs of diagnosing, treating and paying disability benefits for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts are proving to be much higher than our earlier estimates.

This morning we will focus on three issues.

First, we will discuss some of the costs that the war has imposed on the US economy.

Second, we will provide an updated estimate for the single biggest long-term budgetary cost of the current war, which is the cost of providing medical care, disability compensation and other benefits frank gehry jewelry veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.

Third, we will argue that such costs are inevitable and can be estimated to some extent in advance; therefore, the United States should make provisions for its war veterans at the time we appropriate money for going to war. We will recommend steps that can be taken to address this unfunded financial liability.

I. The Cost of War and Its Impact on the US economy