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Old 02-25-2010, 06:44 AM   #103 (permalink)
Cimarron29414
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Originally Posted by james t kirk View Post
Never the less, explain to me why national defense in the USA is a sacred cow. I seem to recall that the US defense budget is around a trillion dollars (if you factor in all the pork that takes 800 billion to a trillion) That's more than every other country in the world combined. When Bush took power, it was slightly less than 400 billion and that was insane. I believe there are 400 US Military bases.
...because pussy countries like keep asking us to fight their wars for them?

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