Other things we could’ve bought with the $3 trillion we’ve spent in Iraq:

• College tuition for every child currently in high school 3 times over.
• 3 iPods for every person on the planet.
• Paid off every American’s credit cards.
• 50 million Habitat for Humanity houses (enough to house 129 million people)
• Produce enough ethanol to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil.
• Pay for enough cancer screenings and vaccinations to save 300,000 lives per year.
• Pay for 5.7 million additional teachers in the classroom.
• Buy 1,363 space shuttles
• Buy every person on the planet 461 Cokes.
• Feed 1.3 billion starving children from when their born until their 18th birthday.
• Provide 46 trillion meals to the poor.
• Adopt 30 billion polar bears.
• Build 72,639 hospitals in 3rd world countries.
• Save 200 billion acres of rain forest (5 times the landmass of the Earth).
• Restore sight for 91 billion people with cataracts.
• Restore the wetlands around New Orleans 214 times.
• Buy 93 billion gallons of ice cream.

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