“At the beginning of [January] 2006, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz had estimated the total [Iraq] war cost at up to $2 trillion, thanks in part to the cost of long-term health care for those wounded both in body and mind–one in five returning veterans was reported to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.” [The 5th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld, Page 204