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Shandris

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15. So long as a financial institution exists that can sell to two countries...

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 02:05 PM

Aug 2015

...there will always be war because there is more profit to be made. Period. It doesn't matter the nation, the policy, the place, the time...nothing. All that matters is that someone, somewhere, is made to hate someone else somewhere enough for them to both buy weapons.

The World Bank, alone, guarantees the eternal existence of war (not to mention every other multinational financial institution; I'm not singling out one as bad).

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War is the worst thing in the world. So why are people getting rich off it? [View all] Octafish Aug 2015 OP

The welfare defense contractors loves it and KBR made good money while we were in Iraq. Thinkingabout Aug 2015 #1

Thank you for mentioning. This reminds me of the faulty wiring for our troops think Aug 2015 #6

Toll Rises -- At Least 18 U.S. Troops Electrocuted in Iraq Octafish Aug 2015 #19

From Vietnam to the present day. Octafish Aug 2015 #18

It is easy for many to play with strangers lives Egnever Aug 2015 #2

You should ask Hilary Clinton and John Kerry that. NobodyHere Aug 2015 #3

And all the other members of Congress except for Barbara Lee who voted against the AUMF. Thinkingabout Aug 2015 #7

Because it's all the white supremacist Socialist liberals who Phlem Aug 2015 #4

because the people starting/running/and making $$ don't have to do the fighting nt msongs Aug 2015 #5

dick cheney restorefreedom Aug 2015 #8

As I typed so many times since I've been here madokie Aug 2015 #9

K&R! n/t Catherina Aug 2015 #10

There are lots of things people shouldn't be for profit industries Hydra Aug 2015 #11

Because there aren't enough good people of conscience to stop them n2doc Aug 2015 #12

they know how to dogwhistle those who'd usually be the war's OPPONENTS, too MisterP Aug 2015 #13

You make Corporate McPravda very angry. Why can't you just TEE HEE giggles about the BFEE? Rex Aug 2015 #14

It's like an echo what the RWNJs say. Octafish Aug 2015 #17

So long as a financial institution exists that can sell to two countries... Shandris Aug 2015 #15

Because the MSM brainwashes gullible voters into electing corporate owned politicians, Zorra Aug 2015 #16