Photo: #A soldier with US Army Eagle Company 2-2 Cavalry Regiment prepares to search a home while on patrol in Baghdad, Iraq. As the five year anniversary of the ground war approaches, many neighborhoods in Baghdad have witnessed improvements in security with families returning and attacks on American soldiers significantly down from last year.
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A soldier with US Army Eagle Company 2-2 Cavalry Regiment prepares to search a home while on patrol in Baghdad, Iraq. As the five year anniversary of the ground war approaches, many neighborhoods in Baghdad have witnessed improvements in security with families returning and attacks on American soldiers significantly down from last year. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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War in Iraq

What the war really costs

Broadcast: Midday, 03/17/2008, 12:00 p.m.

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard University professor Linda Bilmes are authors of the new book "The Three Trillion Dollar War," which they discussed in a recent speech at the Commonwealth Club of California.

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