That's a thousand billion dollars. It is the minimum cost of our misadventure in Iraq, according to a new study:

The study expands on traditional budgetary estimates by including costs such as lifetime disability and health care for the over 16,000 injured, one fifth of whom have serious brain or spinal injuries. It then goes on to analyze the costs to the economy, including the economic value of lives lost and the impact of factors such as higher oil prices that can be partly attributed to the conflict in Iraq. The paper also calculates the impact on the economy if a proportion of the money spent on the Iraq war were spent in other ways, including on investments in the United States

The study is by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and others.

That's the minimum. Max cost? Two trillion. That's two thousand billion dollars.

Fuck.