Interesting article comparing annual budgets for the EPA, Department of Education, National Science Foundation and the National Cancer Institute in relation to the war.

"Feb. 4, 2007 — The price tag for the Iraq War is now estimated at $700 billion in direct costs and perhaps twice that much when indirect expenditures are included. Cost estimates vary — Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz puts the total cost at more than $2 trillion — but let's be conservative and say it's only $1 trillion (in today's dollars)."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Who...C-RSSFeeds0312