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Iowans
for Sensible Priorities
"BB Ad w/ Jack Shanahan"
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Jack Shanahan:
Hi. I'm Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, former commander of the U.S.
2nd Fleet.
We can improve education and still maintain the strongest military in the world. We spend 30 billion a year on nuclear weapons. To show what that gets us, I'm gonna drop some BBs in this can. One [SFX: plink] could destroy Hiroshima 15 times over. Five [SFX: plunk] wipes out Russia. And now here's the rest of our nuclear arsenal. [SFX: Downpour of BBs runs uninterrupted for more than 10 seconds]. That's enough to destroy every major city on the planet 10 times over. If we reduce it to just 4 times over we could save $15 billion a year. That's money we could be spending on our kids. Let's get the politicians to talk about the real issues... Announcer: Paid for by Iowans for Sensible Priorities. |