On AlterNet: costs of war

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The Stunning Costs of Keeping a Soldier's "Boots on the Ground" in Iraq

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.

$3.5 Trillion for Iraq and Afghanistan Wars?

ReutersNovember 13, 2007.

How do even wrap your head around that number? It's $20,000 per average family of four.

Democrats Stand Back as Congress Keeps Funding the Occupation of Iraq

Maya Schenwar, TruthOut.org. November 2, 2007.

More blank checks from Congress.

War Costs May Total $2.4 Trillion

Ken Dilanian, USA Today. October 24, 2007.

Bush war spending highest since WW II.

Will Humanity go the Way of the Dinosaur?

Robert B. Reich, The American Prospect. March 31, 2007.

A new NASA report on killer asteroids ought to spook people into action.