NEW PROPOSED WAR SPENDING TOPS $611 BILLION;

With the Bush Administration's recent request for an additional $45.9 billion in war spending for fiscal year 2008, the total proposed war spending would rise to $611.5 billion, according to the National Priorities Project (NPP), a non-profit research group.

Cost of the War in Iraq

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THE COSTS OF THE WAR IN IRAQ:

Instead, we could have hired 8,156,696 additional public school teachers for one year.

Instead, we could have built 4,237,907 additional housing units.

Instead, we could have paid for 62,339,926 children to attend a year of Head Start.

Instead, we could have insured 281,836,244 children for one year.

Instead, we could have provided 22,816,880 students four-year scholarships at public universities.

"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

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