The National Priorities Project reports the cost to Oregon of the war in Iraq at 3.02 billion dollars. That’s a lot of schools, healthcare and infastructure.

Oregon House Joint Memorial 9:

Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:
That we, the Seventy-fourth Legislative Assembly, on behalf of
the citizens of Oregon, urge the President to refrain from
escalating United States involvement in Iraq at a time when the
Iraq Study Group, leading military and diplomatic officials and
allies around the world are calling for the United States to
reduce the number of troops in Iraq and to withdraw from
operations; and be it further

Resolved, That we, the Seventy-fourth Legislative Assembly,
call on Congress not to approve this announced increase in the
number of troops deployed in Iraq, but instead to pass
legislation that prohibits the President from spending more
taxpayer dollars on such an escalation until such time as the
President obtains Congressional approval for the escalation; and
be it further

Resolved, That we, the Seventy-fourth Legislative Assembly,
urge the President, at a minimum, to obtain explicit approval
from Congress before sending more American troops to Iraq;
and be it further

Resolved, That we, the Seventy-fourth Legislative Assembly,
call on Congress and the President to announce an expedient plan
for the redeployment of the Armed Forces of the United States
from Iraq, to begin handing over military operations for the
security of Iraq to the elected government of Iraq and to begin
withdrawing United States forces from Iraq and redeploying those
forces as soon as possible, but not later than August 1, 2007.