How Much Has The Iraq War Cost?

If you are like me when you hear the question "how much has the Iraq war cost?" you think of the 3351 American service members who have died, the 26,188 who have been wounded, or maybe the tens of thousands of Iraqis who have sufferd. This morning McClatchy Newspapers has published an article looking at the question from the perspective of America's pocketbook. It concludes that soon the war will have cost more than 500 billion dollars. That is enough money to provide.

A college education - tuition, fees, room and board at a public university - for about half of the nation's 17 million high-school-age teenagers.

Pre-school for every 3- and 4-year-old in the country for the next eight years.

Here is where you can go to check up on the current cost of the war. Its our money. I vote a full ride scholarship for half our kids, or maybe a half scholarship for all of them. Money better spent. But I'm not the decider.
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