The War in Iraq cost the United States 140,332,240,000 as of Oct 16th 2004. Instead we could have hired an additional 2,431,976 public school teachers, provided 6,803,003 students four-year scholarships at public universities, fully funded global anti-hunger efforts for 5 years, fully funded world-wide AIDS programs for 14 years, ensured that every child in the world was given basic immunizations for 46 years, or insured 84,031,482 children for one year.