Self-Fulfilling prophecies

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If I was a "potential enemy" I would wonder what the US & NATO was up to with its 40% tax rates to force-feed a fear-based, outdated military industrial complex.

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Men will preserve the errors of their childhood, of their country and of their age long after having recognized all the truths needed to destroy them. - Marquis de Condorcet, 1794

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US	$271,600,000,000
NATO	$250,900,000,000
Russia	$79,000,000,000
China	$27,400,000,000
N. Korea	$5,300,000,000
Iraq	$2,600,000,000
Iran	$2,300,000,000
Libya	$2,300,000,000
Syria	$2,200,000,000
Cuba	$270,000,000
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Total Potential Enemies	$121
Total US + NATO	$523
#s Source: Senator Dale Bumbers, Floor Speech 8/95