whitebeard

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The cost of war

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953

The War in Iraq Cost the United States
$128,488,458,274

Instead, we could have hired
2,447,399 additional public school teachers  for one year.

The War in Iraq Cost the United States
$128,488,590,291

Instead, we could have provided
3,259,063 students four-year scholarships at public universities .

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