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Total Cost of War to PA since 2001

The cost of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to Pennsylvanians alone has passed $35,000,000,000; now wouldn't that be helpful in H'burg these days? Track our dollars' alarming disappearance at CostofWar.com

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George Orwell on war

"Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."

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"War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off." — Karl Kraus, writer (1874- 1936).

Saint or communist?

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Brazilian archbishop Dom Helder Camara

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Empire or Humanity? What the classroom didn’t teach me about the American Empire

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America Owned by Its Army

By William Pfaf

November 08, 2009 — “TMS” — Paris, November 3, 2009 – It is possible that the creation of an all-professional American army was the most dangerous decision ever taken by Congress. The nation now confronts a political crisis in which the issue has become an undeclared contest between Pentagon power and that of a newly elected president.

Parack Obama has yet to declare his decision on the war in Afghanistan, and there is every reason to think that he will follow military opinion. Yet he is under immense pressure from his Republican opponents to, in effect, renounce his presidential power, and step aside from the fundamental strategic decisions of the nation. …

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Posted: November 8th, 2009 under Peace, Security, War, President US.
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