2008-03-18 The Iraq War Is Killing Our Economy

2008-03-18 \US-Iraq War\US economy http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m42140&hd=&size=1&l=e The Iraq War Is Killing Our Economy &ldquo;To date, the government has spent more than $522 billion on the war, with another $70 billion already allocated for 2008. .. With just the amount of the Iraq budget of 2007, $138 billion, the government could instead have provided Medicaid-level health insurance for all 45 million Americans who are uninsured. What's more, we could have added 30,000 elementary and secondary schoolteachers and built 400 schools in which they could teach.&rdquo;   