Cost of Iraq War

As of 7/9/2008 the cost of the Iraq War has exceeded $535 trillion. According to <a href=”http://www.nationalpriorities.org”>Nationalpriorities.org that comes down to more than $5,800 per household, $2,147 per person. This amounts to more than $300 million per day.

To put that in perspective, taxpayers in the city of Chicago, having spent $6.9 billion on the war so far, could have paid the salaries for more than 100,000 elementary school teachers for a year. They could have provided scholarships for more than 650,000 university students for one year. Or they could have provided every person in the city health care for one year.