Cycling champion Lance Armstrong–who just won his seventh Tour de France —has publicly criticized the war in Iraq because it has prevented the country from spending more on cancer research. He told Time Magazine, “’Funding [for cancer research] is tough to come by these days. The biggest downside to a war in Iraq is what you could do with that money. What does a war in Iraq cost a week? A billion? Maybe a billion a day?” He went on to say ” The budget for the National Cancer Institute is four billion. That has to change. It needs to become a priority again. Polls say people are much more afraid of cancer than of a plane flying into their house or a bomb or any other form of terrorism. It is a priority for the American public.”