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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 05:02 PM
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How can we successfully dismantle the Military Industrial Complex?
I fear the only way would be militarily, by an outside force. Is there a more Gandhiesque approach?
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Fresh_Start Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 05:03 PM
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1. I suggest that we make defense contracts
at cost only (not cost plus) with overruns borne my the company with the contract.

They will run away from government contracts.
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 05:05 PM
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2. Drastically reduce pentagon and black ops funding.
Dwight Eisenhower was a wise man.
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 05:08 PM
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3. Don't give it money. Raise the price of oil to $1000 a barrel.
Make it too expensive to have ANY kind of warfare.
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moonlady0623 Donating Member (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 05:17 PM
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4. Wage Peace
swords into plows and all that........put that $$ and creativity to work on solar and wind energy and on fixing things here at home....reassign troops to more of a US Peacecorps kind of duty......building gardens and repairing homes and schools --

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