What does $456 billion buy?
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Including the $124.2 billion bill, the total cost of the Iraq war may reach $456 billion in September, according to the National Priorities Project, an organization that tracks public spending.
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Here is a list of thing that could be purchased with that money. Some of them don't mean anything to me (I have no idea about Newton North High School), but other things are mind boggling:
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At the upper range of those estimates, the $456 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world's poor for five and a half years.
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