Grandmas knew Iraq score early (cost of war)

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http://www.nydailynews.com/10-20-2005/news/col/story/357528p-304514c.html

Grandmas knew Iraq score early

By Juan Gonzalez

Every Wednesday afternoon for nearly two years, a group of women has gathered for an hour outside Rockefeller Center, holding aloft their homemade placards in a silent protest against this dreadful and deceitful war carried out by President Bush and his bunglers.

They call themselves Grandmothers Against the Iraq War, and yesterday they were joined on Fifth Ave. by the most famous peace mom in the country, Cindy Sheehan.

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Iraq may even become a hot topic in our own mayoral race.

On Thursday, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller and Deputy Majority Leader Bill Perkins will submit resolutions that call on Bush to pull U.S. troops out, and they will seek an expedited vote on it.

Miller and Perkins, both Manhattan Democrats, will be joined in their announcement by Fernando Ferrer, the mayoral challenger who repeatedly opposed the war during the Democratic primary.

All this means that Mayor Bloomberg may finally have to give clear answers on where he stands on Iraq.

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According to the Massachusetts-based National Priorities Project, which tracks the cost of the war to local communities, New York City taxpayers have spent $6.8 billion in federal taxes to finance the conflict.

That translates to $850 for every man, woman and child in this city.

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