# War Costs The US $10,178.86 For Every Iraqi & Afgani

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 7, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-costs-the-us-10-178-86-for-every-iraqi-afgani/325239 "2005-10-07T20:41:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-costs-the-us-10-178-86-for-every-iraqi-afgani/325239/1 "2005-10-07T20:41:13Z")

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From [this article](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9619538/) that says the estimated cost of the wars in Iraq and Afganistan will be $570 Billion by the year 2010.

Google says population of Iraq is 26,074,906  
Google says population of Afafanistan is 29,928,987

Total = 56,003,893

Divide that total into the $570 Billion it works out to cost $10,178.86 for each and every single man, woman and child in both countries.

Just my fun with math today.

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**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-costs-the-us-10-178-86-for-every-iraqi-afgani/325239/2 "2005-10-08T01:15:34Z")

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Sure seems there could be more effective use of the money.

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-costs-the-us-10-178-86-for-every-iraqi-afgani/325239/3 "2005-10-08T01:27:23Z")

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Pah, that’s nothing. The war is costing us $18,387,096,774.20 per point the Dallas Cowboys scored in Superbowl XIII. That’s a lot of money!

Seriously, I’m not a fan of the Iraq war, or of President W in general. But let’s stick to actually meaningful statistics, ok?

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**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-costs-the-us-10-178-86-for-every-iraqi-afgani/325239/4 "2005-10-08T13:36:53Z")

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Funny, I paid almost _that_, last year in taxes!