Wages of War

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Columbia University’s Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the Iraq War will up costing three trillion dollars by the time everything is added up. He and Linda Bilmes of Harvard’s Kennedy School offer their account of the war’s cost in The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. Plus, Clarence Page and Marie Cocco on yesterday’s primaries; and should “colorblind” casting be a two-way street?

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