How grateful must the US Military Industrial Complex be to GWB?

Question

Lets be honest, only they have benefitted from this murderous Fiasco.. right?

Answer 1

A couple years ago, historian Chalmers Johnson predicted that thanks to the "entrenched interests" of the military-industrial complex, the United States can look forward to a future of perpetual war, increased propaganda, fewer Constitutional rights, and a bloated executive branch. America, he warned, "will cease to resemble the country outlined in the Constitution of 1787" unless there is a "revolutionary rehabilitation of American democracy."

By late 2005, when Andy Rooney played a segment of Eisenhower's speech on CBS' 60 Minutes, the implications were evident: "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist," Eisenhower said in 1961. "Well, Ike was right. That's just what's happened," Rooney remarked.

"What has become of the American people that they permit the despicable practices of tyrants to be practiced in their name?" former Reagan administration official Paul Craig Roberts recently asked. "The Bush administration is in violation of the US Constitution, the rule of law, the Geneva Convention, the Nuremberg Standard, and basic humanity. It is a gang of criminals," he wrote.

Former President Jimmy Carter also voiced concern. "Everywhere you go, people ask, "What has happened to the United States of America?" he said, referring to international reaction to America's evolving stance on human rights, the environment and the separation of church and state.

The most striking criticism has come from Bush administration exiles, however. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, recently offered a scathing critique, confirming reports that a "cabal" led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had "hijacked foreign policy" and that this cabal's "insular and secret workings" led to "decision-making one would associate more with a dictatorship than a democracy."

With government insiders now sounding such alarms, concerns cannot be attributed to the New World Order fringe. It's clear that something is amiss -- something that's eroding our character, our reputation and our values. How did this come about? Just how far have we strayed from our democratic ideals?

Answer 2

I'll also bet that Dubya's grateful of them. Without them to turn to for praise his entire dilussional reality would come crashing down like it is everywhere else. Their control of the media was only so extreme and therefore their control of public opinion. Now they are the only group that doesn't consider him a failer. For someone with such disasterous phycological make up this affirmation is essencial. For all other beings on this planet it's truely awful that emotionally GWB sucks from the Military Industrial Complexes nipples.

Answer 3

If you want to be honest, then the best "war" from the POV of the weapon manufacturers was the Clinton attacks on Yugoslavia (BTW a very, very "illegal" war by UN standards). Why? because the US Air force used missles costing 2-3 milion US$ EACH to destroy farm tractors and sewage treatment plants.
Bear in mind that the profit margin on such a missle is around 60%...
Iraq war means money gets actually spent on buying lots of things- and these things cost 100 bucks each. Not much margin for skimming I'm afraid.
But no worries- it will change. The Dems will order some "experts" to write some pages of uneducated opinion (not worth their weight in manure)- and will pay some megabucks for these "expert opinions". I have some suspicions that a lot of that money will somehow turn up in the Dem election funds... but then, I am so paranoidally suspicious that I actually suspect such a proven patriot like Kerry that he faked his war wounds and that such pristine, honest citizen like Kennedy- that he skims cash from the "big dig" to his election fund...

Answer 4

you're speaking approximately Dwight Eisenhower; the final great Republican President. He knew using fact he became right into a ordinary and a hero of WW2. He knew how the militia business complicated worked.

Answer 5

The 3,000 Americans, would be nothing. If Our President hadn't stood up to these Terriorists. We'd be burying Americans, from now on! They want our freedoms, eliminated! So Our Brave Soldiers are keeping the fighting over there. Wher we'll be safe. School isn't the only place to learn. Life has it's lessons, too.

Answer 6

Just goes to show you that the national lesson of Vietnam has yet to be learned. Its a complete shame that for so many in the country, war is a capital venture. They use our taxes to invest while they profit.

Answer 7

Just think, you could be one of the grateful ones, all you need do is sign on the bottom line!

Answer 8

Hell they have his picture hanging intheir board rooms, they give him stock options, and have kept him in office

Answer 9

Very! Clit' tin tried to snuff out the US MIlitary.

They were living in squalor conditions under Clit' tin.

Hillary Clit' tin would not allow Military Cadre to wear their uniforms into the Oval office. She hated them.

Answer 10

Step back from the pipe, get some fresh air, and go check yourself into rehab.