Comparative size of Russian, Georgian armed forces

— MILITARY SPENDING: Russia's military budget is equivalent to about $40 billion this year, compared to Georgia's $997 million.

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"War is now the American way, even if peace is what most Americans experience while their proxies fight in distant lands," according to this opinion piece. While I think the article is a bit one-sided, I agree with much of it and feel it makes some excellent points.

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World military spending in 2008 topped $1.4 trillion. Military spending has been on the rise since the late 1990s.

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Several Rumsfeld associates say the defense secretary didn't order any cuts of major weapons programs early in his tenure because of financial stakes he held in the defense business.

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Collateral damage means dead civilians. These casualties are the direct result of U.S. foreign policy and military operations funded by our tax dollars.

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This meeting of the Senate Military-Industrial Caucus will now come to order. The chair recognizes the senator from Northrop Grumman for a question.

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Women's Take - Georgia State Senator Nan Orrock: We are on a dangerous path to a militarized society

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According to The Economist global military expenditures grew by 4% in 2008 to $1.46 trillion.

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The Pentagon has been rightly shamed by reports that 96 major new weapons programs are running almost $300 billion over estimates and averaging 22 months behind delivery.

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CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates visited southern Afghanistan late last week not only to assess the American war effort, but also to showcase the kind of conflict he thinks the military must prepare to fight in the years ahead.

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CNBC business analyst Rick Santelli's televised tirade earlier this year ago against the idea of "loser" homeowners receiving government assistance turned the cable analyst into an overnight folk hero, no small feat for this voice of oppressed bond traders everywhere.

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Consider, for example, that the 2009 budget for homeland security (the folks that protect us from terrorists) will likely be about $50 billion.

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I have worked for a trailer manufacturer that OshKosh sub-contacted to build tank retreivers during the 80's. One of my jobs during the early part of 2001-05 was selling parts to Saudi Arabia to refurbish the trailers that were used in the last 20 years.

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"In the short amount of time that President Barack Obama has been in office, he has already shifted away from earlier presidents' more controversial policies.

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President-elect Barack Obama's administration needs to monitor war spending much more closely than the current White House has, according to a new study that criticizes President Bush's approach to funding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars -- a bill that is projected to approach near …

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Here is what we think can be cut back or canceled in order to pay for new equipment and other reforms that are truly essential to keep this country safe:

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PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama needs money. "To make the investments we need," he said last week, "we'll have to scour our federal budget, line by line, and make meaningful cuts and sacrifices, as well."

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When it serves him politically to condemn Halliburton's abuses, he takes that view. When he's running for president and seeking to establish his bonafides with the Republican base, a different John McCain emerges.

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McCain's Greatest Hits from the Debate

OK, ya'll. This post is a little rough. I try to be fair and even here on the vine, because I think that civil discourse warrants civil conduct. But in real life, I cuss like a sailor and sometimes err on the side of politically incorrect.

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These 200 Ex-Diplomats see the urgency of shaping and building American foreign policies and day to day workings of the State Department on something more evolved than the already obscene profits of the Pentagon, Halliburton, Blackwater, and Kellogg Root and Brown.

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On Wednesday, September 24, right in the middle of the fight over billions of taxpayer dollars slated to bail out Wall Street, the House of Representatives passed a $612 billion defense authorization bill for 2009 without a murmur of public protest or any meaningful press comment …

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"Once you know how much you've got to spend you really have one big decision to make. Like the tuition or the vacation. You can be selfish or responsible.

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Brian Hart has criticized the U.S. military for spending billions of dollars on equipment and technology they never use, while not doing enough to protect the troops. Now he has done something about it.

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A Pentagon audit of $8.2 billion in American taxpayer money spent by the U.S.

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China's military budget for 2008 will increase by 17.6 percent to 417.77 billion yuan, or about $58.8 billion, Jiang Enzhu, spokesman for the National People's Congress, China's legislature, told a news conference. This follows a 17.8 percent increase in 2007.

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Multiple 9/11s every day of the year: Why is there no war on this terror?

Almost 10 million children -- 27,000 a day -- die needlessly every year. Why is there no war on this terror? by Shreeram Krishnaswami World Views

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