![Or we could do one iPhone and a year's supply of inexpensive vodka to facilitate global drunk-dialing. I've done the math.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNB34B1HMDp8jmPCulBoUf00x8_2tN4e2ocOZQlZWvuuZa45VGUfH24yO5ocUmH2nBTaiSs4Oebn_caDFm44OM-K_k_ZZffRh5LvuZQIDcoKFW__40w6eVDYjUB3EIytIaepULMFbhNDI/s400/vernhart.jpg)
For the price of the Iraq War, we could give every human being two iPhones.
There are 6.7 billion human beings. The iPhone costs $199. So giving every human being two iPhones would cost $2.67 trillion, which is less than Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes' estimate of $3 trillion for the cost of the Iraq War.
Image used under a Creative Commons License from vernhart. See what else you could buy with the money we spent on the war!