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Originally Posted by mitsukaiSI
what a douche . . . best offense is a good defense . . . all im saying as that assclown better not try to take away my guns
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I'm sure you'll have plenty of guns left if Obama takes just a few. Besides, the Bush Administration is about to sell a bunch of your "guns" anyway.
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U.S. Proposes $6.43 Billion Arms Sale to Taiwan - WSJ.com
And just to put U.S. Military spending in perspective (as of three years ago...and we know it's only increased as our national debt has grown, and grown, and grown).
Pentagon's annual budget = $400 billion
Now, I'm not saying we shouldn't be overseas "defending" our country, but I also think it's silly to stay in Iraq under admitted false pretenses and for people to complain about how much Obama will remove from the military. I don't think we're going to be hurting if he takes $10 billion out of the budget-or even $100 billion.
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Serious Fun: TrueMajorityACTION.org
*World military expenditure in 2006 is estimated to have reached $1204 billion in current dollars;
*This represents a 3.5 per cent increase in real terms since 2005 and a 37 per cent increase over the 10-year period since 1997;
*The USA, responsible for about 80 per cent of the increase in 2005, is the principal determinant of the current world trend, and its military expenditure now accounts for
almost half of the world total;
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Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes … known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
— James Madison, Political Observations, 1795
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World Military Spending — Global Issues
Just something to think about...