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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24794)	6/13/2003 12:34:31 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Hawk, Re: So sorry to burst your bubble on military spending Raymond.. Well, of course you didn't burst my bubble or turn me into a fascist with a glib statistical romp in the Wonderland like that. It is high time that militarists like you get a grip on the reality that you are attempting to create. It is a truly ugly world that you are attempting to create. A world that depends on death, destruction and conflict for profit. A world that increasingly destroys the Constitutional freedoms that Americans have too easily taken for granted for the past two hundred years. The future you hope to create with F-22s, JSFs and ATFs is indeed an ugly and depressing one. Especially since it is in no way a necessity that the U.S. become the biggest prison-military-industrial complex this planet has ever suffered. Have you ever considered the alternatives? Have you considered that the destruction of thousands of innocents in the Fertile Crescent for the sake of Halliburton's profits may be a reprehensible and immoral use of the American taxpayers dollar and the good will of the American soldier/patriot who has been betrayed in the most basic sense with his patriotism cynically manipulated by a pack of scoundrels now in charge of the Department of Death and the White House? Have you no moral sense whatsoever? How dare you talk about how small a percentage of the GDP is used to perpetrate genocide for the sake of outlandish war profiteers? Have you no sense at all? Have you no decency? -Ray

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24794)	6/13/2003 12:16:21 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25898

the US spends less on military spending as a percentage of annual GDP than it did during the Reagan years. And percetage wise, it spends FAR LESS than a nation like North Korea, or the former Baathist Iraq. LOL! Wars aren't fought on a GDP basis. Iraq had to defend itself from the U.S. and Israel, so it had to spend more of their GDP to keep up. The U.S. spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined. Tom