Costs of the Iraq war

This counter shows the current costs of the war in Iraq for the United States. When I checked the last time it was at nearly 126 billion dollars. According to the website the U.S. could have fully funded global anti-hunger effort for 5 years with this amount of money. Or could have funded word-wide AIDS programs fo 12 years. Or could have hired 2397 additional public school teachers for one year. Or could have paid health insurance for 53919 children. Or just could have given 1750 dollars to each American household.