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Published: December 26, 2008
$50 billion to
$60 billion
Original Bush administration estimate of the cost of the Iraq war
$17 billion
Cost of the war in 2001, when the United States overthrew the Taliban government in Afghanistan
$93 billion
Cost of the war when the U.S. military invaded Iraq in 2003
$182 billion
Cost of the war in 2008
$70 billion to
$700 billion
Estimated interest the United States will pay on the funds the Bush administration borrowed to finance the Iraq war
Source: The Washington Post
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