How Much Money Has The US Spent In Iraq?
A very brief look at the answer to this question.
CostOfWar.com
is a project maintained by the National Priorities Project. It analyses federal data on spending in the war in Iraq, and produces a running counter of the total amount of money spent in the war in Iraq. At the time of writing this article, the war in Iraq costs $445,817,285,000.
$445,817,285,000. That’s quite a large sum of money. And with large sums of money, sometimes it’s hard to put them into perspective. So let’s take a look at how the money could have been used otherwise. Instead of invading Iraq, 7,726,076 public school teachers could have been hired for a year. Or, 266,956,850 children could have had health insurance for a year. Back to education, 21,612,280 students could have been provided with four-year college scholarships.
This should give you an idea of the sheer amount of money that has been poured into the Iraq war – there aren’t even 266 million children in the United States. Now imagine how much better off the economy would be if that money had been invested inside the United States.
The war sure hasn’t been helping the common person in the states with their expenses: The price of milk has gone up from $1.40 for a 2-gallon pack to $5.14 for the same pack, (according to a US resident).
Good or bad? I say it’s bad, but you decide. Just remember, 21 million 4-year college scholarships.
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On June 29, 2008 at 4:43 pm
The whole Manhattan Project on spent a equivalent 30 billion dollars, and that is with today’s money.
y
On September 5, 2008 at 10:36 am
I think we should stop wasting money on them they started this war we should have shot them all……………….
d
On December 22, 2008 at 7:56 am
Or better yet Washington could have left us with our own money. When liberals make comparisons it’s always “look how many sick puppies we could have healed.”
tharanideepak
On December 22, 2008 at 8:13 am
How true? This amount of money could have done wonders for the small and upcoming countries.
d
On February 3, 2009 at 9:41 pm
yeah, we could have saved all that money so that when al-qaeda knocks down a few more of our buildings we can afford to just rebuild them. Or, we could knock down a few of their buildings and kill a few of their people. aproxamently 21 thousand insurgents have been killed so far.
Kit8dog2
On February 12, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Hey D, also think about over 100,000 innocent men, women and children have been murdered over there. They had noting to do with what happened here. Iraq had noting to do with what happened here. So instead of looking up statistics and up your a** for information, read, learn and absorb whats going on in this world. Your intent is well versed, but your accusing the wrong country. And when Bush was asked about the war..he said its a do over he can’t do over. He knew he screwed up. So we went over there on false pretenses..and continued to blow that country back to rubble. Sad, embarrasing for us. Sad for the innocent people. We don’t like there politics so lets tear down a whole country and its people. What if some came here, and did to us what we did to them, because they don’t like our politics, come here and kill 100,000 of our innocent people…The whole word is condemning the US for this war and our politics. Poke..wake up!
annonamo
On March 4, 2009 at 7:14 pm
good point Kit8dog2, but the point is someone invading the U.S is pretty slim I mean I live by an air force base and the amount of planes is amazing a-10’s, f-16’s,etc..
randomdude
On March 18, 2009 at 4:15 pm
28,221,180 iraqis… i think saving that many and constructing a new government tops merely granting scholarships to 21 million. Oh, kitdog by the way. Your “false pretense” accusations are wrong. According to a CIA count, over 150,000 chemical and biological warheads have been found in IRAQ. Are these the WMD’s you think don’t exist?
udontcare
On June 17, 2009 at 2:32 am
its impossible randomdude, because statistics, since u want to talk about them, show that there are only 34,000 nukes in the world active. do u really think only one country not only has the space and capacity, but the money? U.S. doesn’t want anyone to play with guns, but they dont want anyone telling them crap
Wilfred
On January 24, 2012 at 2:49 pm
you kno there are many people out here in the states that could realy use the money. you kno alot of people have for got about what the us and what we stand for…. freedom….right to free speach… \”sorry about the spelling its realy bad\” and all that we are what every country out there dislikes reason…. not shure any more we were a proud people full of eagerness to do better not just let everyone walk over us. we need to fight for whats right not just who\’s right but for whats right. have u ever noticed back in the 50\’s 60\’s and eurly 70\’s people wanted to be apart of somethin great. now its all about memememememememememememememe a lil over bord i think…. but still before you go out and say oooo poor iraq poor ejypt or what ever think and say….. what about U.S.A lets take some pride in what we onve were. thanks for reading
Wilfred out!