Above is a live counter, you have to click on the source to see.

- compared to the cost of drunk drivers in the U.S.

Each year, alcohol-related crashes in the United States cost about $51 billion

This from the Government CDC site:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/drving.htm

Then spend the money on the Iraq War solving the problem of drunk driving. Geez!

Bobby Rutan-

I guess the point I was trying to make was nobody seems to care about a 51 billion running tab that has been going per year for the last how many years? Not to mention that someone dies every 31 minutes.
(let's round it to 20 to make it easy).

Seems to me the war trying to save lives at home was lost on our roads years ago. You do the math.

When you throw a rock into a pond it doesn't just go straight in and that's it nothing else. There are ripples.

What is shown is at best a direct cost and a vast underestimate of the true cost to our nation. Lost business, lost business opportunities, future health benefits for wounded soldiers, higher oil prices, ...... etc.

We can multitask these days. We can work to end this ridiculous war and work to reduce drunk driving. sigh.