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8. Most of our resources go into bloated MIC<1% which then "creates":controls whatever jobs there are.

Sun Aug 12, 2012, 10:56 AM

Aug 2012

Why else would the Pentagon not have listened to certain ones of its own retire elders who opposed the War on Iraq?

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Woo Fucking Hoo [View all] unhappycamper Aug 2012 OP

DoD & the MIC are why we can't have Nice Things. xchrom Aug 2012 #1

+1 Auggie Aug 2012 #12

If we were The Wizard Aug 2012 #4

But America is a moral Country RVN VET Aug 2012 #5

Thanks and welcome to DU The Wizard Aug 2012 #9

Good research, thanks DainBramaged Aug 2012 #6

The MIC.. 99Forever Aug 2012 #7

DOD Contracts HERE: SHRED Aug 2012 #11

We are fucked. We are bought and sold. woo me with science Aug 2012 #13