This is the facts that I will be using in my design, the links are available.
A lot of the information used is from YALE & HARVARD studies,
It will be my job to present this information in a user-friendly way
BUDGET
$640 Billion estimated spent on Iraq war
How it COULD BE spent;
$30 Billion/Year is need to end world hunger
$20 Billion to end homelessness in USA
$10 Billion top provide world clean water – 40% of the world don’t get clean water
$70 Billion/Year to provide free healthcare in USA
$63 Billion/ Year to make higher education free for all
$118 Billion to put a solar panel on roofs of every property
$200 Billion Free internet worldwide.
$40 Billion for a 1 week, all inclusive holiday to Europe for every US citizen
9B 15 Fluorescent Light bulbs for each us household
$8B FREE CONTRACEPTIVES IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
$72 COLONISE MARS & SEND 70 PEOPLE
How it WAS spent;
6M/10B = 1650 Missile Launchers
1.3M per soldier x 100,000 soldiers = $130B
114M/12B = 100 Stealth Fighters
Destroyer Ship 1.4B x 62 = 87B
Submarine 3B x 30 = 90B
515 Helicopters 70M/36B
42 Surveillance Hawks 10B
15 Aeroplanes 34B
3B to arm soldiers with guns, ammo and grenades
80B Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation
62B = 10,000 Tanks
PROFITS?
$401 Billion from the TOP 10 arms-producing and military services companies
“This work begins with keeping our economy growing and I encourage you all to go shopping more” – George Bush, Day after 9/11.
IRAQ BEFORE WAR
2.5 million barrels per day – Oil
$30.10 per barrel on month of invasion
$752,500,000 per day
112B RESERVES IS WORTH
$3,612,000,000,000
WOULD PAY THE BUDGET x 5
DEATHS
Total Iraq’s killed = 179,240
Total Americans killed = 5,272
Total killed = 184,512
1 American 34 Iraqis deaths
2,996 people died on 9/11
52 people died in London underground bombings.
References:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/books/chapters/0713-1st-hedges.html
http://www.wanttoknow.info/warcoverup
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/11/homelessness-christmas-decorations_n_2276536.html
http://borgenproject.org/the-cost-to-end-world-hunger/
http://www.amsa.org/AMSA/Libraries/Committee_Docs/CaseForUHC.sflb.ashx
http://www.caranddriver.com/tesla/model-s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_households
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX7V6FAoTLc – song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxk9PW83VCY – bush shopping
https://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/reference/announcements/5/
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#MIM-104F_.28PAC-3.29
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR100/RR145/RAND_RR145.pdf
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=F000000__3&f=M
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~nordhaus/iraq.pdf
http://www.improvingourworld.com
http://www.mars-one.com/faq/finance-and-feasibility/how-much-does-the-mission-cost
http://www.digitalrainforest.co.uk/get-involved/what-you-can-do/
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