Cost of Iraq War to Date:4/3/2005: 160 billion dollars

This amount of expenditure could have funded:
• 6 years of global anti-hunger programs
• 1,446,714 additional units of public housing in the USA
• basic immunization for every child in the world for 53 years
• paid for 21,281,000 kids in Head Start
• funded worldwide AIDS programs for 16 years

All of these figures are from the National Priorities Project

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