Huge Clock Depicting Cost Of Iraq War Unveiled In NY's Theater District

[matcom]

just in time i would say too!

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NEW YORK -- Two groups put up a giant digital clock to tick off the cost of the Iraq war, days before the Republican National Convention gets going less than a mile away.


A New York City taxi cab drives past an anti-war billboard sponsored by the Center for American Progress on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004, in New York.

The clock was unveiled Wednesday by the advocacy group Project Billboard and the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank headed by John Podesta, former President Clinton's chief of staff.

Organizers calculated the war's cost as of Wednesday at $134.5 billion and are adding $177 million per day, which comes to $7.4 million per hour or $122,820 per minute.

The two groups said the money could have been spent on projects "to make Americans safer at home and stronger abroad," including adding two new divisions to the Army, hiring 100,000 more police officers and undertaking significant improvements to safeguard ports.

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[jean]

1. NYers are doing excellent prep for dear leader's visit! I wish we

could consolidate all the info and pics - it will help soothe our nerves once the convention is rolled out.

[otohara]

2. I Have This Creepy Feeling

that the GOP will either vandalize it, Bloomberg will come up with some reason to take it down, or Ashcroft will say it's hurting the Homeland! - and within 3 days it will dissapear