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Boston.com estimates the total cost of the War in Iraq at around $456 billion. What could we have bought instead? Among other things:
According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of primary education for every child on earth.
At the upper range of those estimates, the $456 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world’s poor for five and a half years.
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Oh man. That’s painful to read.
Sad indeed and a great way to convey the cost of war. Reminds me of the fantastic graphic in the Times back in January. (Full article here.)
makes me want to cry…..
This world is completely insane and everything is upside down. I don’t need anything else to face in order to say and mean, “enough of this shit. I am leaving…”? It is my own attack upon myself and there truly is an alternative to this chaos of suspiciousness and viciousness.
Thank God. I love my Father.
You think thats painfulo… try watching the video of the sodier known as motari throw a puppy of a cliff. thats whats taking iraq’s oil…i mean keeping iraq safe that is.
I’m in my science class when i saw this and i thought that this really shows how the soldiers think about hte war, im not sure if its the soldiers or if it was someone else who wrote this but i really feel that this is what we need, iraq is in a depression and we are just putting more pressure on them… but i completely dissagree with Julian because of the video. Its a puppy yes but how many more soldiers are dying for lost cause and if it were a full grown dog, it would have attacked them putting them at risk, people have a cruel sence of humor yes but that doesnt mean that all our soldiers are terrible people
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