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=The Price of War is Extreme!=

THE TRUE COST OF THE WAR IN IRAQ:
toc When a war is occurring the focus of the country’s leaders are on the war and not of the needs of the country. Great amounts of money are used and lost, as are lives. //“ One-Hundred-Sixty-Six (** $166 **) Billion dollars this is the total amount of money President Bush spent in Iraq & Afghanistan by the beginning of fiscal year 2004: the $87 billion he asked for, plus the $79 billion he'd already spent.”// ([|A little perspective on $87 billion]) This was already how much President Bush had spent on Iraq and Afghanistan in 2004, and last year in 2007 it cost //“…taxpayers more than $359 billion…”// ([|George Vreeland Hill]) All the money spent on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan could have been spent on much more useful things, such as; //“…17 million full four-year college scholarships…”// could have been paid for with that money. Also in the educational category; you could //“…hire 6,224,739 schoolteachers for a year…”// or //“…total health care and insurance for more than 215 million children…”!// ([|George Vreeland Hill]) Looking at these numbers it can be see how much it would have helped if that exact same amount of money was spent on more important things. If the 6,224,739 teachers had been hired more children could have been educated; as is the case with the __17 million__ scholarships that could have been paid for. There are many students that have potential and couldn’t go to a suitable college. Or maybe the money could have been spent in a different direction; 215 million children could have been helped by having total health care and insurance. The government should be focusing on their own country’s needs before they can even start terrorizing other countries. The children are now the future of the world, if more than half of them are uneducated, well, the results cannot be good. Money isn’t the only thing this war (or any other war) is costing; it has already cost 3963 that were from the U.S. Yet America isn’t the only country who has lost lives; from Britain 119, Italy 33, Ukraine 18, Poland 17; the list goes on with several other countries including Australia who has a total of 1. (Oct. 2006) ([</span|Fact Sheet: Iraq War]) Although these figures are already large; they are not including the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s that have died due to this American led invasion. “//A team of American and Iraqi public health researchers has estimated that 600,000 civilians have died in violence across Iraq since the 2003 American invasion…”// ([|Iraqi Dead May Total 600,000, Study Says]) If that amount of deaths due to this war is true then, that is more than 150 times the number of deaths of the Americans! Although it is not as big as some wars in history; any war is a huge deal, and __any__ death is important; no matter whose “side” it is from.

// “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime” // ([|Ernest Hemingway]) If murdering someone is a crime then so is war, the only difference in war is that the killing of other people happen in large numbers. If killing someone is a crime, how can war ever be justified? Wars use such vast amounts of money; the same money that could be used for other things; good things. Helping the needy, educating the children of our world, making jobs; these are all __good__ things that we could do instead (and all without useless killings). War includes wasting huge amounts of money, and loosing thousands of lives; there __is__ nothing good about war. That is the true cost.

By: Joanna

=Jimmy Carter= //"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."// [|Jimmy Carter] Jimmy Carter is right, war is never good. War kills so many people, you have to stop and think about whose those people are. They might be someones parent, sister, brother, aunt or uncle, niece or nephew, maybe even cousin. They are someones's friend; and they are definetley someones child. How would you feel if you lost any of those? Especially your son or daughter? The true cost of war is not only in money; it is in lives, friendship and family.

=Thomas Mann=

//"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."// [|Thomas Mann] Thomas Mann is right, when we see problems with peace and the world around us, we immediatley seem to think about war. Well, thats in my eyes anyway. War is wrong and it is cowardly, killing people before even trying to 'talk it out'.

Edwin Star: WAR (What is it good for?) [|Lyrics for War] media type="file" key="Edwin Starr - War ,What is it.mp3"

By: Joanna

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  "A little Perspective on $87 billion"  George Vreeland Hill (The Money Spent of the War in Iraq could have bought all this)  Edwin Starr Lyrics  "Iraqi Dead May Total 600,000, Study Says"  <[|http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/ernesthemi108407.html>  Photo  Casualties in Iraq <[|http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/> Fact Sheet: Iraq War 
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