Loose Democracy
June 02, 2004

Bringing down the house

From Mark Dionne:

Geraldine Sealey on Salon.com estimates the war will cost $500 billion. If my memory serves me, there are about 20 million people [26M - ed.] in Iraq. That works out to $25,000 per person, $100,000 per family of four. I suspect that that amount would easily buy a new house for each family in the country.

You can watch the numbers at The Cost of War.

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