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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (208089)	11/9/2006 11:25:07 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) of 281500

During the Cold War, we had some REAL worries that the military-industrial (and now government) complex could play to. We were facing down communists with the capability to destroy not ONE city with a nuke, but ALL our cities, just as we had (and STILL have) the capability to destroy ALL of theirs. So, THEN, the massive military expenditures might be justified. No longer. Add up the entire military budget of the surviving "Axis of Evil" and compare it to ours: globalsecurity.org US = 466 billion (not counting Iraq - 2004 figures) Axis of Evil = 10.2 billion ( Iran and N. Korea ) We've obviously been the victims of some EXPERT fear mongers, able to puff the slightest hint of a threat into a NEW Soviet Union. People who buy into this are complete PUSSIES, not to mention herd idiots.

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