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>> Spending on Iraq would still have occurred (nothing like this scale of course) but at this point (assuming our original invasion never occurred) it's very likely that we'd be militarily involved with Iraq on some level(very possibly with many more allies, but involved nonetheless). Please provide any shred of evidence to indicate we would be at war with Iraq if we had not invaded Iraq. At the very best it is only speculation. >>>Even with the war, our military spending is surprisingly low compared to other militaristic nations. Our armed forces are also relatively under-manned (as we've a volunteer army). In the 1990's the USA out spent the next 10 countries combined in military spending. Let me break that down for you. We spent more than China, Russia, France, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Italy, South Korea and Saudi Arabia combined. In 2004 our Military spending was about $466 billion. The rest of the world combined spent about $500 billion. In other words over 48% of every dollar spent on the military in 2004 was spent by the United States. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234609 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
