Maze cartoon of SR-71 Blackbird spy plane with the Beatles
song, "All we are saying, is give peace a chance" written on the side
of the plane and peace signs coming out the engines. Created
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The
cost of the United States' wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost
taxpayers more than one trillion dollars as of June 1, according to a
report published by a nonprofit organization "National Priorities
Project".
The group, National
Priorities
Project, conveyed the size of US war spending by highlighting other
things that could have been bought with the money. For example, for the
price of America's two wars, the US could give grants to all of
America's 19 million college students for the next nine years. One
trillion would also pay the annual salaries of 21 million policemen,
the group says.
According to the report, the
operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, which began in October 2001
and
March 2003 respectively, are the most expensive military operations the
US forces have ever conducted abroad since the end of the Second World
War.
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