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3. The Cost Of War Is Horrific
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 04:16 PM
Sep 2012

It's easy to count of war in dollars not to mention that the war mongers are constantly thinking of new ways to spend money we don't have--new war toys,new chemicals that can destroy the human body,the land,animal and plant life. But it's the cost at home that you can see every day that really makes you against more war. A visit to any vet hospital,clinic will show that war for many will be something they have to deal with for the rest of their lives. It's the vets,their wives,husbands,kids. The damage done to body and spirit is something that cannot be solved by having more wars.
Secondly people in general are seeing that money that could be used for practical causes here at home are going elsewhere in their never ending quests for more wars for oil,territory,superiority over other countries.
Threats of granny getting evicted from the nursing home if they slash Medicaid,the young man in college who can't get a break with tuition,those who are one paycheck away from losing their homes,all of those who have no insurance at all--it's these people who are so tired of war and it's continual drain of financial resources to all the population (even more then47%) that makes them realize that we simply see little purpose of continual war.

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