Now, it's 40 million children who could have had health care.

• Position: UPDATES

See "... And Counting: Cost of the War in Iraq" (Between the Lines), Nov/Dec 2003, p. 30

At the end of 2003, we exhibited a website (www.costofwar.com) showing that the cost of the Iraq war up to that time, if the money had been allocated differently, could have provided a year of health care for 22,521,346 children ... or could have hired more than a million additional U.S. school teachers for a year. At that point, the war's cost had mounted to $73.6 billion...