What Does $456 Billion Buy?

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That’s the price tag — so far — of the Iraq War.

The Boston Globe is running a slideshow of what that money — $456 billion — could have bought had it been spent elsewhere.  Check it out.

My faves: free gas for all Americans for 1.2 years, or a 52,615 year contract for Dice-K.

Most sobering?

The $456 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world’s poor for five and a half years.