VIDEO : Iraq war: Predictions vs. reality : 4,500 Dead Americans, 32,000 plus seriously wounded, oil revenues would pay for the war : it didn't happen, 800 billion spent according U. S. Government - More realistic 3.5 trillion ( hidden expenses ! )

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That bill ( 3.5 trillion dollars ) hasn't been paid because the money was borrowed.

Professor Catherine Lutz of Brown Univeristy says that the tragedy and suffering of the Iraqi people is poorly known and poorly understood.

Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on Dec 15, 2011

With nearly two million Iraqis displaced, tens of thousands dead and more than 4,500 US soldiers killed, the overall result of the war on Iraq may not be what the US bargained for.

Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane has been looking back at the promises and predictions that were made by Washington nine years ago.

Iraq war: Predictions vs. reality

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