The Scary Old Story About War


	The Scary Old Story About War

BabaDraconis

3-19-2007 11:27 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2a560d3b-9d0a-492a-af8c-8d7dd30978f9/175C8197-E322-4554-ACCB-352888DE44DB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.pathofthorns.com/?p=74" href="http://www.pathofthorns.com/?p=74" style="font-size: 11px;">www.pathofthorns.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pathofthorns.com/?p=74"><P><A rel="lightbox" title="Hunger 2003" href="http://www.pathofthorns.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/hunger2003.gif"><IMG align="left" alt="Hunger 2003" title="Hunger 2003" src="http://www.pathofthorns.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/hunger2003.thumbnail.gif" /></A>When people oppose the spendings on war, they often ask what could be done with the money?
For the 4 years anniversary of the war in Irak, someone did the calculation:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pathofthorns.com/?p=74"><P>” 1. The newspaper today states <STRONG>one minute of war in Iraq costs US$380,000</STRONG>. A calculation made by
Joseph Stiglitz, a US Nobelprize winning economist. That is almost double the cost of the war in Vietnam.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pathofthorns.com/?p=74"><P>2. According to WFP, the UN’s food aid organisation, <STRONG>it costs US$0.19 to feed a child for a day</STRONG>. Nineteen cents. <STRONG>20,000 children die of hunger every day</STRONG>. The time it took you to read this post, already 15 died.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pathofthorns.com/?p=74"><P>3. Taking those two figures together, <STRONG>one minute of war in Iraq would feed 2,000,000 children for a day</STRONG>.
<STRONG> One day of war in Iraq would feed 8,000,000 children for a year</STRONG>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pathofthorns.com/?p=74"><P>4. There are 800 million hungry in the world. Three-four months of war in Iraq would feed all hungry in the world.
Three-four months of war, we have done before. Many times. But we have never fed all the hungry in the world.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/175C8197-E322-4554-ACCB-352888DE44DB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>