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September 30, 2004

A Failed Transition

The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War

By Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, Karen Dolan, Erik Leaver, Miriam Pemberton, Marcus Raskin, Emira Woods

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“A Failed ‘Transition’” is the most comprehensive accounting of the mounting costs and consequences of the Iraq War on the United States, Iraq, and the world. Among its major findings are stark figures about the escalation of costs in these most recent three months of “transition” to Iraqi rule, a period that the Bush administration claimed would be characterized by falling human and economic costs.

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