06-13-2009, 02:22 PM
Quote:Not to mention starting expensive wars of choice halfway around the world, all the while talking about how they'll pay for themselves...While I agree with most of what you said here, I don't think Bush made that up just to serve as an argument.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-invasion...E2%80%93present
"In 2008 Iraq accounted for more than $12.5 billion of the $34 billion US weapon sales to foreign countries (not including the potential F-16 fighter planes)."
Personally, I liked this viewpoint most...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JI24Ak02.html
"As executives, retired generals and Pentagon officials flit from one industry-underwritten conference to another, bemoaning imagined cutbacks and belt-tightening, the real bad news for their business would be good news for everyone else - namely peace, diplomacy, democracy and human rights."