On AlterNet: costs of war
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Jon Basil Utley, Foreign Policy in Focus. October 9, 2008.
It takes half a million dollars per year to maintain each sergeant in combat in Iraq.
ReutersNovember 13, 2007.
How do even wrap your head around that number? It's $20,000 per average family of four.
Maya Schenwar, TruthOut.org. November 2, 2007.
More blank checks from Congress.
Ken Dilanian, USA Today. October 24, 2007.
Bush war spending highest since WW II.
Robert B. Reich, The American Prospect. March 31, 2007.
A new NASA report on killer asteroids ought to spook people into action.