Just the Facts

For the cost of fighting the war in Iraq for one day, we could ...

• Provide 3.97 million households with an emergency readiness kit.
• Close the financing gap for interoperable communications in 41 small cities, 36 mid-sized cities, or 6 large cities so that federal, state and local first responders can talk to one another during an emergency.
• Purchase 780 fire trucks for improving local emergency response capabilities.
• Employ 4,919 fire fighters, 4,222 police patrol officers, or 7,052 paramedics and emergency medical technicians for one year each.
• Double the federal budget for nuclear reactor safety and security inspections to ensure that these potential terrorist targets are adequately protected.
• Pay for 1,101 additional border patrol agents to better guard our borders against potential terrorists.
• Provide 9,750 port container inspection units to detect hazardous materials being trafficked into the country.
• Provide 1,332 explosive trace detection portals for airport screening of passengers, as recommended by the 9/11 Commission.
• Provide 6,290 local law enforcement agencies a bomb-detecting robot.
• Provide 4,875 narcotics vapor and particle detectors.
• http://democrats.org/a/2005/10/the_real_cost_o.php