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VideoNation: The Cost of War

By Katrina vanden Heuvel

November 15, 2007

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The monthly cost of the war in Iraq: $2 billion. The cost, so far, to the average family of four: more than $20,000. With the economy faltering and the first primaries just weeks away, Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel argues that candidates need to be hammering home the staggering economic cost of the war. In a Campaign 2008 blog post, vanden Heuvel writes that the Democratic contenders need to speak clearly about how we can use the billions squandered in Iraq to fund desperately needed priorities. In this VideoNation commentary, vanden Heuvel takes the argument to Iowa, looking at the economic toll of the war on communities across the first primary state.

About Katrina vanden Heuvel

Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor and Publisher of The Nation.

She is the co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right (NationBooks, 2004).

She is also co-editor (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers (Norton, 1989) and editor of The Nation: 1865-1990, and the collection A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001.

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