The Cost of Empire


	The Cost of Empire

chestnut501

3-9-2009 7:22 AM

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chestnut501 says:

Maintaining 1000 Foreign Military Bases

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9-12-2009 4:43 PM

wes50

Gee, that's almost as much as it costs us to maintain our insurance companies!

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