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The Threat of War

nalex on 07 Mar 2008

The USA election should not be decided upon by dint of whether the population of the country can or can not be fooled into fearing consequences that do not exist.

While we are on the subject is it also wrong to reassure the population of a lack of danger when there clearly is one.  Or is the danger being created by the acts of the agressor, in this case the USA led by GW Bush?

War has evolved with every conflict and some even think that it is required to stimulate progress.  Does this mean that war has given more to science than it has taken away from humanity?

Is the real question which candidate can think ahead of ”the enemy” the USA has spent 3 trillion dollars fighting accelerate the US economy so another 3 trillion is not all that much?

Wonder which candidate will actually enable the USA to step out of the economic qugmire the legacy of GW Bush.  If the impeach, there may be a rationale that Halliburton belongs to the government rather than the other way around?

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The three trillion dollar war

nalex on 02 Mar 2008

From The Guardian

“Next month America will have been in Iraq for five years – longer than it spent in either world war. Daily military operations (not counting, for example, future care of wounded) have already cost more than 12 years in Vietnam, and twice as much as the Korean war. America is spending $16bn a month on running costs alone (ie on top of the regular expenses of the Department of Defence) in Iraq and Afghanistan; that is the entire annual budget of the UN. Large amounts of cash go missing – the well-publicised $8.8bn Development Fund for Iraq under the Coalition Provisional Authority, for example; and the less-publicised millions that fall between the cracks at the Department of Defence, which has failed every official audit of the past 10 years. The defence department’s finances, based on an accounting system inaccurate for anything larger than a grocery store, are so inadequate, in fact, that often it is impossible to know exactly how much is being spent, or on what.”

How is false declaration of war NOT criminal behaviour

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