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Old 08-27-2013, 10:45 PM  
sambucas
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Originally Posted by crockett View Post
Ummm you do understand it's about nothing more than money don't you? Do you really think the industral military complex can survive with out wars and endless govt contracts?

You have any idea how many people would be out of work if the wars stopped?
Precisely! The wars that western governments have been starting for last 50 years have got nothing to do with oil, diamonds, spheres of interest or any other bs. It's simply about selling bombs. A lobbying went-too-far that's all it is.

Imagine if american corruption machine wasn't lobbying and then consuming the 600-billion-a-year military budget but let's say a 600-billion-a-year budget for exploration of space. Where would we be as a civilisation by now?
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