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Originally Posted by Wagner
Wow, I'm with Quicksilver...
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Quicksilver knows that I am even more against it than he is. I was speaking from the perspective of the military contractors. I'm sure they think it is a good thing. Otherwise they would not spend the many millions bribing the politicians to vote for war.
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Originally Posted by Wagner
And it is cute how you think you know Russia & China's true military budget.
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Russia and China both have elected parlaments and in both cases, just as in the United States, the parlament/congress controls all spending, and votes on the budget. The budget of both contries is public information just as it is here.
Do they hide certain spending for this like intelligence? Of course -- the Pentagon does the same thing. But the overall budget is known, just not the specifics of what the Pentagon uses the money for.