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To: Ruffian who wrote (248150)	11/11/2007 11:27:22 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It would also buy the U.S. a lot of good will IF we had used the money for a real war on poverty... According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of primary education for every child on earth. At the upper range of those estimates, the $611 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world's poor for seven years.