Things We Could Have Bought Instead of a War in Iraq

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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.

LINK [“What does $456 billion buy?”] (Boston.com via Popular Doctrine)