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War Bankrupting U.S.

Comment by Larry Ross, October 19, 2005

The counter (link below) shows over 200 Billion dollars spent, to date, on the Iraq war alone. Another major war on Iran - estimated 3 times larger than Iraq, added to the continuing Iraq war, would go a long way toward bankrupting the U.S.

Add to this the cost of the Space Arms race, maintaining troups in 120 countries, keeping the large fleet of U.S. warships and aircraft operating, maintaining the huge staff of Pentagonists, war planners, armed force personnel and other staff, funding various arms research projects, and purchasing various armaments. Overall the defence budget is about 350 billion dollars a year and growing. Its more than the next 5 countries in the world spend on defence.

How can they justify it after the cold war has supposedly ended? How can they sustain it?

Only by constantly inventing new enemies and justifying new wars, can Bush and his Republican allies satisfy the needs of a growing military/industrial complex. President Eisenhower warned Americans in 1960 about the growing power of "the military-industrial complex". Now this has become the military-industrial-political-scientific-academic complex, as so many Politicians, Scientists and Academics depend on this complex of interests.

Click here and Watch it Go. This is your money America or was.

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"Never in the history of the world
has so much been spent,
so quickly and recklessly
on so much wanton destruction and evil
by so few."