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In reply to the discussion: Still OK to be an old time peacenik around here? [View all]KS Toronado
(17,229 posts)12. $80,000 for a piece of equipment that size?
You could buy 3 nice SUVs for that much money. Kinda proves the Military Industrial Complex
is alive and well ripping the Pentagon off.
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welcome to DU from a tree hugging, social justice seeking animal loving peacenik.
Evolve Dammit
Jul 2021
#11
The senior officers at Pentagon Purchasing Dept. are all in on the rip-off pricing.
Ford_Prefect
Jul 2021
#26
Soldiers who, if not operating an enemy tank capable of killing our soldiers,
House of Roberts
Jul 2021
#17
This really gets to core of the problem. Some would rather focus on the symptom.
jalan48
Jul 2021
#39
We are allies with S Korea...and would be fighting to help them on the Korean peninsula
EX500rider
Jul 2021
#65
YES. $2.2 trillion for a 20-year war for profit is an insult to all humanity
traitorsgalore
Jul 2021
#28
Welcome! I flew combat missions in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos .. that turrned me peacenik.
Bo Zarts
Jul 2021
#42
On this day, July 16, 1945 first atomic bomb tested. Peacenik Sir Joseph Rotblat
spike jones
Jul 2021
#53