The True Cost Of The Iraq War

The Iraq war has already cost the US £500 billion to conduct. When you add indirect expenses that Americans will be paying long after troops come home (medical care for the injured, higher oil prices and replenishing the military), the war will cost America upwards of $2 trillion.

Plus the cost to "coalition" partners, like Britain.

Plus the cost to Iraq.

With $135 billion a year, we could eliminate extreme poverty around the world.

Making sure developing countries have enough money to fight the AIDS epidemic "only" costs $15 billion per year. For $5 billion a year, we could achieve universal literacy.

Immunising every child in the world against deadly disease is even cheaper -- $1.3 billion a year.

We only have to shift our priorities from waging war to waging peace to do so.