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Originally Posted by Robbie
The way I see it...we were "unprepared" for WW2, but when the time came we mobilized and kicked ass.
The only reason for all this military spending is to make defense contractors rich.
Our military is bigger than the next top ten countries COMBINED. It's pure greed at work.
Nobody is going to invade the United States Of America anytime soon. It's supposed to be "Defense", but once the big defense contractor companies got really involved it has become nothing but free money for them.
And they use FEAR to sell it to the people.
I'm personally sick and tired of all this pre-emptive horseshit in both civilian life right here in the U.S. and our military adventures abroad.
Time to STOP being the world's policeman and take care of our own people.
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That's because no politician in today's era will ever vote for a draft in order to go to war. No politician will ever vote to raise taxes in order to pay for those wars.
They know the only way we can continue to run around satisfying the neocons wildest dreams of overthrowing every country in the Middle East is by having a standing army with a big budget. You can bet your ass we would have never gone to Iraq if Bush would of had to stand before the American people and tell them he was reinstating a draft and going to create a war tax...
Every war the US was involved in up until Vietnam was paid for by a war tax. Every major war also required a draft which also stopped with Vietnam. After Vietnam we kept a large standing army and have constantly raised the military budget every year.
I say cut the budgets for standing armies and require a draft and war tax in order to go to war.