Global Military Spending

US Military Tops all Other Nations Combined

See, Military Expenditure Database at www.spiri.org and Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation, see also, “Analysis of the Pentagon’s Fiscal Year 2006 Supplemental Funding Request,” at www.armscontrolcenter.org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm

War Casualties

180 million people were killed in warfare during the 20th Century.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic
-Joe Stalin

Iraqis Killed in War with US

Source                                      Iraqi deaths                      From March 2003 to

Lancet survey 654,965                           June 2006

Opinion Research Survey 1,033,000                        August 2007

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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Albert Einstein

War is Murder

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
–Howard Zinn

“When the rich make war, it’s the poor that die.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre

“Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.”
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
-Sir Peter Ustinov

“Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.”
-A pirate, from St. Augustine’s “City of God”

“War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.”
-Alfred Adler

“Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they though of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.”
-Gil Bailie

“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.”
-Thomas Carlyle

“War doesn’t make boys men, it makes men dead.”
-Ken Gillespie

“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”
-Denis Diderot