| How Would You Spend $720 Million? |
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| The cost of war also includes the things we could be investing in here at home but aren't, like health care and fighting global warming. |
The first four years of the Iraq war cost American tax payers $1 trillion dollars -- the equivalent of $720 million each day or $500,000 per minute!1 At the same time, over half a million American and Iraqi lives were lost, and the education, health and economic infrastructure of the country was destroyed.
"No education... no people who can understand the facts... the spreading of disease, poverty, and a weak country. This is the future of Iraq." -- Noor, a physician who continues to live and work in Iraq
Don't let this be Iraq's future! »
What Iraq needs is sustained peace-building and sustainable solutions to deal with the war's aftermath. For less than 1/5th of what the U.S. spends in one day in Iraq, we could be providing teachers and better education for over 150,000 school and college-age Iraqi refugees!
American Friends Service Committee is working to heal the wounds of war and to educate about its real costs, both in Iraq and here at home. Please make a donation today! »
 | Sincerely, Samer ThePetitionSite |
1 Based upon the work of Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
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