For the price of the Iraq War, we could've bought enough confectioners' sugar to reach from Earth to Alpha Ursae Majoris (also called Dubhe), the farthest star of the Big Dipper. A grain of co...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could've made each of the world's pandas the CEO of its own regional airline. Using the highest estimates, there are 3000 giant pandas in the wild, and 266 in...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could've given everyone with HIV a lifetime supply of AIDS drugs. There are 33.2 million HIV positive people in the world. About 1.2 million of them are in th...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could buy everyone who voted for Barack Obama a hot air balloon from which to watch his inauguration from the sky. According to current estimates, Obama recei...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could've bought enough pecans for a pecan pie the size of West Virginia. About 5 ounces of pecans are necessary for a 9-inch pie. A 9-inch pie is about 64 squ...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could've bought every US soldier who died in Iraq their own nuclear-powered submarine, so they could explore the ocean instead of being dead. Sturgeon class s...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could've given everyone in Pennsylvania a jet pack. There are 12.4 million people in Pennsylvania. Jet Pack International's T73 is currently being sold for $...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could've subscribed to the LA Times since the beginning of time. The universe is approximately 13.73 billion years old. According to the reigning theories of ...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could pay Ethiopia's health care bills for a thousand years. Ethiopia has a population of about 78 million. Per capita health care expenditures in Ethiopia ar...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could fund the Lizard People's Senate campaigns for the next thousand years. The Minnesota Senate race was the most expensive race of this year, with the cand...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could've turned the Sahara Desert into a forest. The world's largest hot desert, the Sahara, is around 9 million square kilometers. In an attempt to block th...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could buy enough MP3s to go on a 50 trillion mile road trip without listening to the same song twice. At 70 miles per hour, one can go 50 trillion miles in 81...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could buy the global kiwi harvest until the year 5000 AD. Global kiwi production in 2005 totaled 1.15 million metric tons, which is worth $775 million adjuste...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could pay full tuition at Stanford for every US child in poverty. 13.2 million American children come from families with incomes below the poverty line, whic...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could buy the planet Uranus at the per acre price we paid for Alaska in 1867, adjusted for inflation. Uranus, the seventh planet in the Solar System, h...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could feed Sheriff Joe Arpaio moldy bologna for the next billion years. As Jill at Feministe describes, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, AZ has e...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could buy Hillary Clinton a Toyota Camry for every second of the average US Secretary of State's term. Rumors are circulating that Hillary Clinton will serve...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could've bought enough Neiman Marcus pajamas for all women born since 1 AD to wear while blogging. TV host Rachel Maddow has cited Sarah Palin's contributio...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could've given Joe Lieberman 20 billion tons of manure. After fervently supporting the Iraq War and losing the Connecticut Democratic primary, Joe Lieb...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could've made enough $30 donations to the DNC for everyone on earth to get 14 Obama-Biden victory shirts -- enough to wear a new one every day for two weeks....
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could've humanely dealt with illegal immigration by paying every Mexican their country's minimum wage to stay in Mexico for ten years. The minimum wage...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could give each Alaskan ten times the gifts that Senator Ted Stevens, lied about receiving. On October 27, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was found guilty ...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could've bought the world's cinnamon harvest for the next ten thousand years. 135,000 metric tons of cinnamon were harvested in 2005. At 2001 prices, this ...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could pay every unemployed American a Congressperson's annual salary. According to the Department of Labor, 10.1 million Americans were unemployed in Oc...
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For the price of the Iraq War, we could protect each moose and wolf in Alaska from returning Governor Sarah Palin and other hunters with 30 surface-to-air missile launchers. The RIM-116...
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