Links Post

There have been many articles that have helped me learn more about my issue. The ones that I found most useful are listed below:
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home This article has been helpful because it has been keeping track of the amount of money that we have been spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html This article has been useful because it provides another estimate of what the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing. This is important because it is hard to calculate the total cost, and different sources have different estimates.
http://education-portal.com/articles/Iraq_War_Spending_vs._Education_Spending.html This article has been helpful because it demonstrates an example of how taxes are distributed in state budgets, and it reflects how the budgets are organized at different levels of government.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/54400 This article helped me be less biased because I talk about how much money is spent on the war, but this article describes how President Obama spent almost as much on stimulus this year as Former President Bush spent on both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, it puts the amount spent on the war in perspective.
http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm This article was helpful because it shows the federal budget as a pie chart and it shows the percent of the federal budget that is spent on military.
http://www.controversialforums.com/War-in-Iraq.php I found this article useful because it clearly defined some of the pros and cons of the war in Iraq.
 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=2844304&page=1 I found this article to be beneficial while writing my blog because it discusses the amount of money spent on the war and it talks about ways that we could have used the money.