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24 August 2006

Peace People .....

Interesting Facts:
Between 1993-1997 we sold or gave $190 billion in weapons to every nation on earth ....

Non-democratic Eritrea and Ethiopia fought each other using U.S. arms and training .....

Opponents Greece and Turkey are two of America’s biggest arms customers .....

U.S. military support was provided to 168 nations in 1998 .....

U.S. arms sales doubled during Clinton’s first year in office ......

Five nations received over $1 billion in U.S. military support in 1997: Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and Egypt ........

Sixteen nations received over $100 million in military support .....

Of the 53 armed forces in Africa, 41 received U.S. military training ......

Of the eleven nations intervening in the civil war in the Congo in 1998, nine received U.S. arms and training in 1997 ......

Since 1990 the government has given away more than $8 billion worth of surplus equipment from U.S. military stocks including 4,000 tanks, 500 bombers and 200,000 light arms to Bahrain, Colombia, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Peru and Turkey ......

Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest arms maker, is selling sophisticated fighter airplanes and air defense systems to at least 21 nations[14]
The United States spends more on arms annually than the rest of the Security Council combined
The U.S. has more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, aircraft, rockets and delivery systems than the rest of the combined world ......

We have troops stationed at over 395 major military bases in over 35 countries ......

“The last five times U.S. troops were sent into conflict, they found themselves facing adversaries who had previously received U.S. weapons, military technology, or training.”

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