Pop quiz--name the political leader who said the following: "We must be willing to pull the plug before sinking more dollars into weapons that do not provide what our warriors need." Now name the leader who said this: "(W)e cannot track $2.3 trillion in (Pentagon [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Rather than the “cost of freedom” I would call it the “cost of complimentary corporate muscle for American business interests” or perhaps the “cost of abject stupidity”. In any case common sense is powerless against those military industrial revenue streams. Nowadays the bamboozling blather is about “finishing the job” in Afghanistan. Balderdash. Look out Columbia here we come!
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