New War Cost Broken Down by State, City, Congressional District

(NORTHAMPTON, Mass.) - With the Senate´s passage today of $70 billion in new war spending, the total amount spent or allocated for the Iraq War has now reached $378 billion, according to the National Priorities Project (NPP). In its new publication, Cost of Iraq War Rises Higher, NPP provides taxpayer breakdowns of this total for all states, congressional districts and hundreds of cities across the country. Each publication also provides the number of U.S. soldiers killed and wounded from each state and a summary presentation of how the Iraq War has undermined U.S. national security. "With this latest appropriation, the total war cost is up to $378 billion," noted Anita Dancs, research director for the National Priorities Project. "All of those tax dollars have only bought us less security at home and more soldiers and civilians dead and wounded in Iraq." Dr. Dancs also provided testimony at a congressional forum on September 26th on the opportunity costs of the Iraq War. Updating that testimony with the new war cost total, Dancs pointed out that $378 billion could pay for all of the following: * Health care coverage for all uninsured children for the length of time the war has lasted. * 4-year scholarships to a public university for all of this year's graduating seniors. * Construction of half a million affordable housing units. * The Coast Guard's estimate of what is needed for port security; and a tripling of the energy conservation budget in the U.S. Dept. of Energy * Reduce this year's budget deficit by half. The National Priorities Project is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that provides citizens with tools and resources to help shape federal budget priorities. The cost to Oregon in lives so far, is 43 of the 2,709 killed. Of the almost 20,500 U.S. soldiers that have been wounded in the conflict, 355 are from Oregon. Oregon dollars invested in the war effort are approximately $3 billion. For Salem residents, that amount so far is $115.8 million, far less than would be required to restore Oregon schools to their former levels of operation. Before the war began, administration officials projected that the conflict would cost only $50 billion. Now it appears that just the interest may end up costing American taxpayers twice that much. The numbers are based on the analysis of legislation appropriating funding for the Iraq War and Congressional Research Service reports.

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Albert Marnell October 3, 2006 3:09 am (Pacific time)

NO NEWS EQ, IF you did your homework on the internet, you would realize that these are not conspiracies. That term is used all the time to discredit the truth. If you watched television this month it shows that you know nothing but what a few billionaires want you to know. Stop watching television! Nothing is insightful on it! NOTHING!

Nonews October 2, 2006 10:43 pm (Pacific time)

You have two choices; 1. believe one of a thousand conspiracy theories and try to unmask it before the rest of us. or 2. know there is GOOD mixed in there somewhere and find it. Misery loves company so I choose door number one sometims but really I should always choose 2.

Albert Marnell October 2, 2006 9:15 am (Pacific time)

Stop watching all television. If you want some of the answers watch "The Truth and Lies of 9/11." by Mike Ruppert only on the internet. I saw the Clinton Wallace piece on the internet. It is still a mainstream media distraction to the real people in control; Bilderberg, Council on Foreign Relations and The Trilateral Commission. We were attacked by Saudi Terrorists not Iraq. Furthermore this was allowed to happen. Don't any of you stupid people ask the simple question, "Where were our fighter jets?" 9/11 was allowed to happen and manufactured. I was just outside the city of New York on 9/11. So many people were saying, "Where are the fighter jets?" The Bush administration along with the global elite had them removed from the country on a bogus training mission in Canada and Alaska. Stop watching anything on television. Nothing is insightful. Mainstream media including newspapers are controlled by about 7 billionares. This war is about money and world domination. The terrorists are people in the administration and those that attend Bilderberg meetings and don't go on mainstream television to tell the people the truth.

Henry Ruark October 2, 2006 7:13 am (Pacific time)

Nonews et al: How money is spent and especially how lives are lost is ALWAYS news...and not only to bereaved families and impoverished-others. When accomplished by lies and political-dealing dollars it becomes deep and dangerous to democracy --or don't you read the national press ?

Nonews October 1, 2006 10:49 pm (Pacific time)

I can't hear you, I'm not listening, let's address the REASON for the war and it's costs. If you want to speculate that it's for nothing, say so. If you disagree with the decision to go to war, I disagree with you. The "news" that money was spent and lives were lost is not news. I prefer the news that money was spent to accomplish what some people believe is worthwhile, ney critical and lives were lost that loved ones can know were honorable and purposeful, ney heroic.

Albert Marnell October 1, 2006 11:16 am (Pacific time)

Some of the uneducated people in this country have high degrees from well known universities. Universities generally do not teach you how to rely on your own feelings, common sense and intuition. You can not live life from a book.

Albert Marnell September 29, 2006 4:53 pm (Pacific time)

No one talks about the tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people that have been killed since our government decided to go along with large corporations that want oil, and aerospace and defense companies that want to sell their wares. Remember this was originally called the poverty draft because of the evaporation of so many living wage jobs some people saw no alternative but the military. It seems that life is awful cheap to Americans. Everything for profit. No one cares about the brown skinned people, their suffering and deaths. America is now a third world nation of mostly poor and uneducated European blood. I am an American citizen. I am white trash.

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