Fun facts about the cost of Iraq

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Cost of Iraq war:
$200 billion dollars +
$400 billion military budget that the U.S. Congress appropriated for fiscal year 2004.
=Approx. $600 billion budget for war in Iraq

****A non-profit group called the Borgen Project (http://borgenproject.org) has estimated what it would cost to end certain global problems. They estimate for example:

Top Global Issues and the Annual Amount Needed to Solve the Problem:
Provide Shelter ($21 billion)
Remove Landmines ($4 billion)
Eliminate Nuclear Weapons ($7 billion)
Provide Refugee Relief ($5 billion)
Eliminate Illiteracy ($5 billion)
Provide Clean, Safe Water ($10 billion)
Provide Health Care and AIDS Control ($21 billion)
Stop Deforestation ($7 billion)
Pay off the Debt of Poor Nations ($30 billion)
=$110 billion

$600 billion - $110 billion = $490 billion more spent on killing poor people than the amount it would take to end all of the above.

(Quite alarming, isn't it?)