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![]() Moderator Location: Reading, UK. Posts: 7,197 | Arms spending tops $1 trillion in '04 As it says on the label...over $1 trillion spent on arms on '04: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4617721.stm Scary thought. I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. -George Best, on being asked what he did with his footballing fortunes. |
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| Volcanic Erupter Posts: 9,589 | I have read one study that predicts that by the end of this year the US will spend more on weapons and the military than the rest of the world combined. I wonder if any empire in the history of the world could make that claim. Rick "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis |
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| Igneous Magma Location: UK Posts: 303 | Possibly the roman empire, but i seriously doubt any other could. Even the British Empire and Napoleon's empire weren't that bad. "Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so indiscriminate and universal" - makes you think of Hiroshima... -H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds |
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![]() Fyrdman Location: Middlesbrough UK Posts: 4,174 | Quote:
It's a sad situation really, they lived in a far more dangerous and bloody time than we do now, yet we spend so much more on weaponry and warfare. Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill | |
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| Igneous Magma Posts: 672 | so whose money is it? ultimately it's our (taxpayers') money, yes? or we can pass on national debts like a blackhole in the form of highest-rated financial instrument (u.s. treasury notes) to our children for maybe decades to come if not centuries. does the cost justify the benefit? |
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| Insert Title Here Location: Illinois Posts: 8 | Well IDM how much would u spend for your freedom and capitalism it says in the report that there only soending a $162 on every person world wide but yet the whole world isn't free plus its hard to fight a war if your contently being filmed by reports who are going to manipulate what you do even if you shoot and kill the man beacause he was running at you witha AK in his hand shoot ing at the repoter and him "IT WASN'T RIGHT TO KILL HIM THOUGH" as the reporter would basically say |
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| Thats Me Location: Where Am I Again?!?! Posts: 177 | The thing that I like is when the US military is saying that China should not be building up a big military. But than WE the US have a biggest military. When we say that it is bad for other countries and than do it ourselves we show how hipocrtitical we really are. We loose our image of being the good guys and start to loose. |
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| Volcanic Erupter Posts: 9,589 | Quote:
Rick "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis | |
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| Igneous Magma Posts: 672 | Quote:
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there are 10 households in a villlage. one of the 10, the only one, has the superpower. this one has tanks and missles to defend itself while all the neighbors only have shotguns and pistols. yet this only superpower is saying it everyday that it is threatened the most from possible intruders from both within and outside of the village. don't you feel that's kinda funny? | ||
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