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bjobotts

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47. America's war and arm's profiteers willnever stand for a department of peace

Reply to NewJeffCT (Reply #24)

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 05:03 PM

Nov 2014

We arm the world and keep them needing arms. Eisenhower was a prophet who warned of the military industrial complex yet they were already too powerful and entrenched to be stopped. Only when the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest will we have no use for war.

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