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1.      Taxpayers in State of North Carolina will pay $4.6 billion for Proposed total Iraq & Afghanistan war spending for FY2011. For the same amount of money, the following could be provided:

        

• 1.9 million Children Receiving Low-Income Healthcare for One Year OR
• 88,156 Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR
• 112,972 Firefighters for One Year OR
• 593,380 Head Start Slots for Children for One Year OR
• 852,913 Households with Renewable Electricity - Solar Photovoltaic for One Year OR
• 2.3 million Households with Renewable Electricity-Wind Power for One Year OR
• 659,267 Military Veterans Receiving VA Medical Care for One Year OR
• 851,804 People Receiving Low-Income Healthcare for One Year OR
• 90,999 Police or Sheriff's Patrol Officers for One Year OR
• 815,157 Scholarships for University Students for One Year OR
• 826,173 Students receiving Pell Grants of $5550

2. xTaxpayers in The United States have paid over $1.2 trillion for Total War Spending (Iraq + Afghanistan) since 2001.

 

3.      At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the North Carolina share of total war spending ($34 billion) would fund all in-state expenses of a four-year education for each incoming freshman class for the next 135 years. Source: http://costofwar.com/en/publications/2011/whats-at-stake

 

4.      Estimated number of U.S. troops in Iraq at the end of 2010: 47,000 Number of casualties for 2010 U.S. troops (through Dec. 31): 60 Iraqi civilians (through Dec. 31): 2,478 Iraqi security forces (through Dec. 31): 482 Total U.S. fatalities since 2003: U.S. deaths (as of Dec. 31): 4,439. Estimated number of casualties for U.S. Troops in Afghanistan: 1640

 

5.      There have been between 101,426-110,810 civilian deaths in Iraq since the start of the Iraq War. In Afghanistan, an estimated 8,832 civilians have been killed.

Sources:

1. The Cost of War, http://costofwar.com/en/tradeoffs/state/NC/program/11/tradeoff/0

2. Cost of War live counter, http://costofwar.com/en/

3. The Cost of War,  http://costofwar.com/en/publications/2011/whats-at-stake/

4. Info Please, http://www.infoplease.com/us/military/iraq-casualties.html#ixzz1OaswKuW5; iCasualties, Operation Enduring Freedom, http://icasualties.org/oef/

5. The Iraq Body Count, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ ; Campaign for America’s Future, Afghanistan by the Numbers, http://ourfuture.org/fact-sheets-briefs/2011062522/afghanistan-numbers