What is YOUR priority?

Okay…mamasnap gripe……………….

At the time of writing this it, the war in Iraq has cost over 277 BILLION dollars.
The cost of the war goes up about $100,000 every 30 seconds.

Some 3,000 African children die of malaria each day, which is equivalent to one death every 30 seconds.

Malaria costs Africa about $12 billion a year.
According to WHO and Unicef, proper treatment and prevention efforts could reduce malaria transmission by up to 60 percent and lower death rates in young children by around one-fifth.
Imagine if we dumped all the war money into Africa instead? Presently, that would be about 23 years worth of prevention and treatment efforts.
We could save countless lives there, as well as saved 17648 American soldiers from being wounded, 2404 from being killed and saved 34711 Iraqi civilians who have died as a result of military intervention. (according to www.iraqbodycount.net)

Instead of this war we could have:

• Paid for 36776 children to attend a year of head start preschool or

• Paid for a year of health insurance for 166,262 children or

• Hired 4,811,829 additional school teachers for one year or

• Provided 13,460,207 students 4-year scholarships at public universities.

Info for these number came from http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

What is this world coming to?