The Cost of the War in Iraq

We don't really talk about politics on this blog and I can't say as we intend to but I ran across something as of late that I wanted to share quickly (without going into the politics behind it). The cost of the Iraq War is currently about 467 billion dollars, numerically that reads 467,000,000,000. That is more money than I will make in 9 million years (assuming I make 50,000... which I think is a shooting a bit high) or 124,000 lifetimes (assuming I work for 75 years at that 50 grand rate). Or one could say that would buy me 11,675,000,000 gallons of beer at my local pub. That's alot of money.