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truth2power

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Sat Oct 25, 2014, 11:25 AM Oct 2014

Stand Tall, America. We're #1

(When It Comes to Our Military Budget, Knocking Off Wedding Parties, Military Bases, etc.)

By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40062.htm

We’re #1 in investment in our military and our national security state! No other country comes within a light year of us! In 2011, the defense budgets of the next 13 countries combined didn’t quite equal ours and we’ve been dumping up to a trillion dollars yearly into the national security budget since 9/11. The best news of all: with a new war on our hands and those budgets sure to rise, we’re guaranteed #1 status into the distant future!

We’re #1 in “renditions” (called “kidnappings” when done by the security forces of less noble governments)! Post-9/11, at least 136 “terror suspects” (some certifiably innocent) were taken by the CIA and other American outfits off the streets of global cities and from the backlands of the planet! Who in the world can equal that?

We’re #1 in knocking off wedding parties from the air! At least eight of them in three countries (Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen) in a little more than a decade! Bridal parties, brides and grooms, hundreds of wedding goers obliterated by American air power! You tell me: What other country could brag of such a feat?


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Stand Tall, America. We're #1 (Original Post) truth2power Oct 2014 OP
How come when I see a post for America #1 rock Oct 2014 #1
Cuz you hate America, you socialist commie!!1! blkmusclmachine Oct 2014 #3
Oh Nos rock Oct 2014 #4
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