thinkprogress.org — According to a new Congressional Research Service report, the cost of the war in Iraq has cost $450 billion to date. Further, if Congress approves the Bush administration?s latest supplemental funding request, the total cost of the war will exceed $550 billion by October 1 of this year - 10 times greater than naively predicted in February 2003.
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backoff34Jul 20, 2007
That could pay for so many things...You could give college education to EVERYONE, healthcare to EVERYONE, pursue a new fuel technology... so many things, but instead we throw away billions of dollars and thousands of lives. It makes me sick.
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In the decade following the 1964 introduction of the war on poverty, poverty rates in the U.S. dropped to 11.1% (from 19%) and have remained between 11 and 15% ever since. Since 1973 poverty has remained well below the historical U.S. averages in the range of 20-25%.[2]Poverty among Americans between ages 18-64 has fallen only marginally since 1966, from 10.5% then to 10.1% today. Poverty has significantly fallen among Americans under 18 years old from 23% in 1964 to 16.3% today. The most dramatic decrease in poverty was among Americans over 65, which fell from 28.5% in 1966 to 10.1% today.-From Wikipedia.
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Total casualties of the War on Poverty: 0Estimated total casualties of the current War in Iraq: 70,000+**including 3625 American soldiers confirmed dead as of 7/19/2007 by the DOD.