From Charlie Reese:

"In 2001, total world arms transfer agreements were worth nearly $26.4 billion, and the United States accounted for 45.8 percent of them. The U.S. arms industry, by the way, is the second-most-heavily subsidized industry after agriculture. In 1999, the United States supplied arms or military technology to 92 percent of all the conflicts around the globe. This military largesse often goes to nondemocratic countries with abominable human-rights records."

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Well, I guess it's tough making a buck selling bullets, so I suppose it's a wise and prudent move to keep the arms merchants on corporate welfare.

Yeah, right.

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