For only 1,500,000,000 dollars...

you too can have your very own Embassy in Iraq, or perhaps you would like the tallest building in the freaking world?

Other things that $1.5 billion dollars could buy:

• enough childhood vaccines to save the life of aproximately 1.4 million chidren worldwide
• fully fund the federal AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) for fiscal year 2005
• match the total amount of pledged funds in tsunami disaster relief from all countries in the world except one (Japan)
• Buy every, man, woman, child, dog AND cat in the United States a happy meal from McDonalds!

(Thanks to Atrios for highlighting the initial comparison of the two buildings.)