Last year 1.2 Trillion Dollars was spent on military budgets around the world. The US accounted for 49% of that. What are we affraid of so much that we had to spend that much money on Guns and Bombs? The Cold war ended everywhere else in 1990, except here in America. And now we are told by groups like Project for A New American Century, that we are now involved in the 'long war' that may never end. This is starting to get ridiculous in my view. Are we really the protectors of peace and freedom, or are we the greatest threat to peace? We sit here in our homes relatively free and safe from the horrors of war, while in many place around the world our weapons and bombs 'protect' everyone else from the destruction and death those same weapons are designed to do. We are the worlds largest arms producer, and the largest consumer of them at the same time. Put another way, we arm ourselves and everyone else with the tools of warfare, so that war can more easily be brought to bare against eachother. To put this into perspective, look at how governments deal with another problem and how it is addressed. People believe that drugs are a poison to people, and therefor have pursued a policy of erradiction of the source of the drugs as a 'cure' for that problem. Eliminate the source of the supply, and you stop their use regardless of the demand (suppossedly). But when it comes to war and aggression, we practice a policy totally opposite. Instead of limiting the weapons available to wage war, we flood the world market with record numbers of tools and technology for fighting one another. It seems to me that the affect of this would be war everywhere anytime, with higher numbers of causualties and greater destruction (proportionate to the increase in effectiveness and quantity of weaponry available) accross the board. It seems like if we wanted to promote peace we would first eliminate the capabilities of our 'enemies' to wage war by cripiling their ability to fight in the first. But then again, Who are 'they, their, or them' anyway?

If Hitler was such a bad guy, why do we hear so much about him?  Certainly, there are plenty of hero's from the past that could be glorified and thought of as people to 'strive to be like'.  But when anyone talks about history, somehow his name or his Nazi Germany always ends up getting spun into the discussion.  I think Adolf Hitler may be the most famous man in the history of Mankind. 






But I think we have a challenger.  His Name is GWB, aka, Mr. President.  And if this picture doesn't spell it out for you, then perhaps you should be paying more attention to what our elected leader is doing, what he really cares about, and whether or not he really gives a damb about any of us........