Here is read as good as any horror story that makes anything...

Here is read as good as any horror story that makes anything coming from the Bush admin very dodgy indeed.

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/The-real-cost-of-Iraq-C9RER?OpenDocument
And a tiny excerpt

By 2017, the interest America will have paid on the money borrowed (largely from China) to finance the war, will total $US1 trillion.

So according to Stiglitz and Bilmes the legacy of the Iraq war is an American Government so bankrupt it cannot bail out its own banks – banks like Citibank that are now in trouble having lent too much during the Greenspan credit explosion that followed the war.