Some countries invest in job training, substance abuse treatment, national healthcare, and literacy programs--and some countries get a war and occupation in Iraq.

"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well...than to kill ten thousand."--Olive Schreiner

See: US Has the Most Prisoners in the World, CommonDreams.org, 12.11.06
See: PrisonSucks.com
See: Critical Resistance
See: The Prison Industrial Complex, The Atlantic, 12.98
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Some countries invest in effective transportation alternatives to pollution-spewing, energy-draining, and life-sucking automobiles--and some countries get a war and occupation in Iraq.

"The great error of nearly all studies of war...has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics."--Simone Weil
See: National Association of Railroad Passengers
See: That's Right: 23 Lanes of Traffic, CommonDreams.org
See: Bike Commuting
See: Bikes Not Bombs
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Some countries have leading industries creating needed and useful products--and some countries get a war and occupation in Iraq.

"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."--George Orwell

See: U.S. Predicts Bumper Year in Arms Sales, CommonDreams.org, 12.05.06
See: Action Atlas: U.S. Arms Sales, Mother Jones
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Some countries provide education on safe sex, pregnancy prevention, and sexually transmitted disease--and some countries get a war and occupation in Iraq.

"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."--Noam Chomsky

See: Bush's Other Losing War: AIDS, TomPaine.com, 12.01.06
See: More wisdom on sexuality from the U.S. government, Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle, 11.29.06
See: Few Americans favor abstinence-only sex ed, MSNBC, 11.07.06
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Some countries invest in international economic development to foster trade and peace--and some countries get a war and occupation in Iraq.

"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear."--General Douglas MacArthur"

See: Best Minds Join Iraqi Exodus, Middle East Times, 11.15.06
See: The other failure in Iraq: The Economy, TruthOut.org
See: Civilian death toll reaches new high, UN says, International Herald Tribune, 11.22.06
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Some countries have an objective free press that challenges official assertions--and some countries get a war and occupation in Iraq.

"All governments lie."--I.F. Stone

See: Washington Post Equals White House Propaganda, Crooks & Liars, 11.28.06
See: Some US media decide to call Iraq strife a 'civil war', Agence France Presse, 11.28.06
See: Does the Media Have It Right on the War?, Michael Schwartz, TomDispatch.com, 03.28.06
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Some countries honor treaty agreements--and some countries get a war and occupation in Iraq.

"This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things. This war has come from robbery--from the stealing of our land."--Spotted Tail

See: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Economic Globalization, Democracy Now!, 11.23.06
See: Native Groups Mourn on Thanksgiving Day, CommonDreams.org, 11.21.01
See: Why I Hate Thanksgiving, Dan Cohen, CounterPunch, 11.25.04
See: Who Says Racism is Unfashionable?, Velorution Gauchiste
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Some countries provide wholesome food for everyone regardless of paycheck size--and some countries get a war and occupation in Iraq.

"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."--John Adams

See: Dark secrets of Whole Foods, Slate, 03.17.06
See: Welcome to Whole-Mart, CommonDreams, 05.02.06
See: Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
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Some countries export useful products to the world--and some countries get a war and occupation in Iraq.

"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."--Thomas Paine

See: Foreign Sales by U.S. Arms Makers Doubled in a Year, New York Times, 11.11.06
See: Military Industrial Complex
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Some countries spend more money building schools than prisons--and some countries get a war and occupation in Iraq.

"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other."--James Madison

See: PrisonSucks.com
See: Critical Resistance
See: The Prison Industrial Complex, The Atlantic, 12.98
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