According to a Nobel Prize winning economist from Columbia University, 
taking in consideration the current cost of the War in Iraq we have spent 
7.1 billion dollars a month which if you wish to see it in tangible set of 
statistics it breaks out as such:

$7100000000 Per month
$229032258 Per day figuring 31 days in the month
$9543010 Per hour
$159050 Per minute
$2650 Per second

  Just think how long you have to work to pay for the amount of money 
spent in the time it takes you to read this?

If you are an average reader and soaking in the numbers, likely in 
disbelief I might add, according to the US government taking the average 
age and ethnicity over 243 million workers, for the money spent on the war 
while reading this you'd probably have to work two years at $28,567 per 
year. That is around 21 seconds totaling $57134.

If you convert that into an average man's life span, that being 21 seconds 
equaling 2 years of income, the average man would go from living 75 years 
to that of only a little over 13 minutes.

That puts it in perspective a little doesn't it?