Everything that you wanted to know about the Cost of War, but were afraid to ask:

In case you haven't been there lately, or ever,  you really need to check out the Cost of War website at:

http://costofwar.com/      

Provided by the National Priorities Project  ( http://www.nationalpriorities.org/ ),

the website not only offers a running tally of the trillion plus dollars spent in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, but also contains a list of social service and education trade-offs that have been neglected in the meantime.  For example, taxpayers in Hartford, Connecticut will pay $47.9 million for proposed Afghanistan war spending in FY2011. For the same amount of money, the following could be provided:

 

36,407 Households with Renewable Electricity-Wind Power for One Year

or

598 Elementary School Teachers for One Year