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gvstn

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7. I always think this way.

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 03:27 PM

Oct 2017

Before the post-Bush era of perpetual war we still managed to start a war every 10 years whether we needed it or not.
the idea being to use up some of our stockpiled weapons so we could buy new ones from the military-industrial-complex.

We could easily take care of our troops, maintain readiness and design new weapons with a much smaller military budget if we didn't always start a war and deplete our weapons and hardware when the world began feeling too peaceful for those in power.

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I always think this way. gvstn Oct 2017 #7

Boy...glad we here in the US are debt FREE......... Bengus81 Oct 2017 #12