alphaQuad wrote:
> If the Bush administration succeeds in its latest request for funding for the
> war in Iraq, the total cost would rise to $611.5 billion, according to the
> National Priorities Project, a nonprofit research group.
> 
> The amount got us wondering: What would $611 billion buy?
> 
> According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation
> and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of
> primary education for every child on earth.

But if you don't do anything about the general lack of human rights in 
the areas afflicted by this poverty, the poverty will return far sooner 
than the World Bank is interested in admitting.

Regards,
John

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