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yurbud

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8. generals on the defense contractor teat were probably the advocates and
Tue Dec 10, 2013, 01:51 PM
Dec 2013

those who have actually wargamed out the consequences are the ones who keep throwing monkey wrenches in the machine.

Those generals jamming the gears to prevent a world war will join the list of little known heroes who saved the world by NOT pushing the button to launch during the Cold War even when their SOP demanded that it was time to or Smedley Butler who blew the whistle on a coup against FDR.

Maybe if we ever get our shit together politically, those guys will be better known than generals famous for sucking up to politicians and killing our troops and other countries people for no good reason.

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