What can we do with $10 billion?

It is estimated that the American government spends about $10 billion ($10,000,000,000) a month on the war on Iraq. My question today is: What can we do with $10 billion?

• Provide government-provided meals to over 74 million people for one month, with three meals a day. (Considering the average school lunch being $1.50)
• Provide 83 billion single-dose (nevirapine) treatments for mother and baby, to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child.
• Provide antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for four months to two hundred million people living with HIV.
• Provide a year's worth of school materials and daily hot meals for 143 million children orphaned by AIDS

Sure, my maths may be off, and you can say I don't know squat about economics, and I'll admit, I don't. But I do know there are hundreds of better ways to spend $10 billion dollars of American tax payers money a month.

It makes you think, don't it?