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Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts) Wed Apr 18, 2018, 09:50 PM Apr 2018

Americas #1 Weapons Salesman: Trump Promotes U.S. Arms Manufacturers & Weakens Export Rules

Democracy NOW! 4/18/2018

It should not be legal to do this. IMO.

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Americas #1 Weapons Salesman: Trump Promotes U.S. Arms Manufacturers & Weakens Export Rules (Original Post) Equinox Moon Apr 2018 OP

It used to be Stonepounder Apr 2018 #1

How is this different from thugs selling weapons on the streets? Equinox Moon Apr 2018 #2

I don'r see any difference, except economics of scale. Stonepounder Apr 2018 #3

Yep Equinox Moon Apr 2018 #4

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)

1. It used to be

Reply to Equinox Moon (Original post)

Wed Apr 18, 2018, 10:21 PM

Apr 2018

that we manufactured arms to fight wars to protect our liberty.
Now we manufacture wars in order to sell arms.

What is wrong with this picture. Dwight D Eisenhower must be spinning in his grave. I seem to remember him warning us against the Military-Industrial Complex.