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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