A piece in
The Nation -- The Wages of Peace shares some shocking facts about the cost of the Iraq war:
- US has spent $522 billion on the Iraq war, with another $70 billion already allocated for 2008.
- For the amount of the 2007 Iraq budget of $128 billion the US could have
- given health insurance for all 45 million Americans who are uninsured.
- Added 30,000 elementary and secondary schoolteachers and built 400 schools.
- Provided basic home weatherization for about 1.6 million existing homes, reducing energy consumption in these homes by 30 percent
- The US government spent an estimated $572 billion on the military in 2007. This amounts to about $1,800 for every resident of the country.
