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WHY WAR?
Why expect war?
why build weapons
why be # 1
in weapons sold
because of the gold?
We need a new plan-
a worldwide fan
that sweeps this globe,
Why not expect peace?
why not export peace
or we can lease-
peace
using monetary grease.
Expect peace( not war)
From Wikipedia
This is a list of the ten countries with the highest defence budgets for the year 2008. The information is from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute [10]. Total world spending amounted to $1.464 trillion USD in 2008.
| Rank | Country | Spending ($ b.) | World Share (%) |
| — | World Total | 1464.0 | 100 |
| 1 |  United States |
607.0 | 41.5 |
| 2 |  China |
84.9a | 5.8a |
| 3 |  France |
65.7 | 4.5 |
| 4 |  United Kingdom |
65.3 | 4.5 |
| 5 |  Russian Federation |
58.6a | 4.0a |
| 6 |  Germany |
46.8 | 3.2 |
| 7 |  Japan |
46.3 | 3.2 |
| 8 |  Italy |
40.6 | 2.8 |
| 9 |  Saudi Arabia |
38.2 | 2.6 |
| 10 |  India |
32.7 | 2.1 |
Expect peace (not war)
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