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Posted on Jun 27, 2006

The annual cost of replacing, repairing and upgrading Army equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to more than triple next year to more than $17 billion, according to Army documents obtained by the Associated Press.

And we still can’t find the money for schools, healthcare, environmental-technology research ... oh, never mind.


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The annual cost of replacing, repairing and upgrading Army equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to more than triple next year to more than $17 billion, according to Army documents obtained by the Associated Press.

From 2002 to 2006, the Army spent an average of $4 billion a year in annual equipment costs. But as the war takes a harder toll on the military, that number is projected to balloon to more than $12 billion for the federal budget year that starts next Oct. 1, the documents show.

The $17 billion also includes an additional $5 billion in equipment expenses that the Army requested in previous years but has not yet been provided.

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By Uncle Izzy, June 27, 2006 at 1:34 pm Link to this comment
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Damn! You found us out, Seven! Only it ain’t the Vatican….


“1866: Protocol XCI, the Size of Currency Protocol, makes the US five-cent piece, or nickel, thicker and broader than the more valuable dime. Mass confusion ensues, and many people under-pay charwomen, thereby fomenting Bolshevism among the scrubbing classes. An addendum to this protocol leads, in the 1970s, to the creation of the Susan B. Anthony dollar, sized the same as a quarter. Mass panic follows as many people unknowingly over-pay for their newspapers and leave extravagant tips. The unclaimed tip revenue alone results in a massive $970 loss for the IRS, a deficit erstwhile CIA director George Bush, Sr., can only recoup through the sale of chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein. The International Jewish Conspiracy brokers the transfer of what is later revealed to have been 30,000 liquid tons of ginger ale. The real chemicals are diverted to make the orange color used in cheese-flavored snacks.”

internationaljewishconspiracy.com

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By Seven Star Hand, June 27, 2006 at 12:30 pm Link to this comment
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Hello all,

Now for the worst part of this horrendous equation.

Bush, Cheney, and the NeoCons are Vatican operatives hell bent on impoverishing and indebting the USA. Looks like their plans have worked like a charm while the brain-dead American public remains deluded and addicted to money, religion, and politics. Who says you can’t fool most of the people, most of the time…

Pay close attention, profundity knocks at the door, listen for the key. Be Aware! Scoffing causes blindness…

Humanity has long been deceived and deluded into thinking that money is a positive means to manage life, societies and civilizations.  Chapter 2 of Revelations from the Apocalypse, Volume 1: Here is Wisdom thoroughly exposes the foundational deceptions associated with the concept of money and how it is actually a severe hardship on every aspect of life and every endeavor that must bear the burden of its unnecessary overhead and resulting stifling complexity. Money severely impedes the quality of life, society, and civilization by spawning myriad horrendous side effects (poverty, crime, wars, pollution, waste, greed, stress, etc.) which are all traced directly to its presence, purposeful shortage, and imposed requirement.

Here’s a real hot potato! Eat it up, digest it, and then feed it’s bones to the hungry…

Money was conceived millennia ago by the priesthood of ancient Babylon to subvert the resources and energies of entire populations for the benefit of a rich and powerful few. Chapter 2 further pierces the ages-old smoke and mirrors surrounding the scourge of money, banking and credit (usury) by exposing their core logic and common denominator math. It exposes the purposeful and well-sculpted math and logic trap imposed upon humanity by the Vatican, its ancient predecessors, and their secret-society cohorts.

It is abundantly clear that imposing money upon the entire world and then forcing people to participate in usury, pay taxes, compounding interest on national debts, and then to struggle their lives away for the sake of money, is extortion and great injustice on a grand scale. To cause suffering and despair for profit on such a grand scale can only be described as abominably evil. The time has finally arrived to demand a full accounting from the Papacy, Vatican, and all of their cohorts and chief supporters. They have no right to cause such overwhelming despair and suffering for millennia. They have no right to deceive practically everyone on such a grand scale. Why do our national leaders conspire with them and participate in such great evil while pretending to serve the Creator? Why do people still have blind faith in such obvious deceivers and their deceptions while they continue perpetrating such widespread and horrendous evil and abominations?

The time has come to wake-up and prove to these duplicitous scoundrels that you are only temporary marks and dupes.

Money: The Greatest Lie Ever Told

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