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Old 01-20-2005, 01:51 PM
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U.S. military spending ($343 billion in the year 2000) is 69 percent greater than that of the next five highest nations combined.
This is said to make the U.S. look like we are what? We are the richest nation in history and we have most of the highest technology and war making equipment in the world. Our "stuff" costs ALOT, and that is why the figure is so large. In other words, so what.
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