>War is really very very good business! (at least for the "friends" of the Bush administration).
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http://www.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=2889&lang=enUnfortunately, the arms race alone is costing us, worldwide, close to a billion dollars (1) a year. Let the World unite, and we can use most of that money for more productive issues: relieving the hunger of the World, education, researching ways to prolong the human life, and many more.
(1) A 1 with 12 zeroes, what the people in the U.S. call a "trillion".
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)