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In the discussion thread: Why the hell didn't anyone heed Eisenhower's warning about the Military Industrial Complex? [View all]

Response to FlaGatorJD (Original post)

Thu Apr 19, 2012, 09:44 AM

smoking357 (42 posts)

25. Sadly, It's Quite the Opposite

Now, we spend all our efforts lavishing praise, pay and benefits over the military for serving in needless wars and committing the most savage and dehumanizing acts.

I wish people would abandon the embarrassing non sequitur "they fight so we can be free." Nothing in Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea, Okinawa, Germany, Africa, etc. has any bearing on my freedom. A runaway police state, staffed largely by returning troops has ruined our freedom, not any overseas influence.

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25 replies	Author	Time	Post
Why the hell didn't anyone heed Eisenhower's warning about the Military Industrial Complex? [View all]	FlaGatorJD	Apr 2012	OP
politicians are "paid" to promote and increase the power of the MIC. end of discussion nt	msongs	Apr 2012	#1
Money	elleng	Apr 2012	#2
BINGO!	newfie11	Apr 2012	#10
Somebody did	guitar man	Apr 2012	#3
JFK	RobertEarl	Apr 2012	#5
I agree. JFK was assassinated for his efforts at world peace...	Peace Patriot	Apr 2012	#7
Like most JFK conspiracy theorists, you fail to link any of this to the actual assassination	RZM	Apr 2012	#9
If you haven't read the Douglass book, which documents	hifiguy	Apr 2012	#17
James Douglass does all the linking necessary in his exhaustively researched book.	Peace Patriot	Apr 2012	#22
I'll admit it does look like a book worth checking out	RZM	Apr 2012	#23
This is pretty nonsensical and bears no relation whatever to the historical JFK	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#21
You have it in one.	hifiguy	Apr 2012	#16
GREED...comes to mind.	Historic NY	Apr 2012	#4
Why in the world do we have almost 3 million active and reserve troops.	Laura PourMeADrink	Apr 2012	#6
Hard to teach a politician when a politician's cash depends on him not learning anything.	Selatius	Apr 2012	#8
I also believe that ending private campaign money is necessary to make any considerable changes	FlaGatorJD	Apr 2012	#14
Because we don't learn from the past.	cali	Apr 2012	#11
The corporatocracy didn't see it as a warning - they saw it as a business opportunity.	baldguy	Apr 2012	#12
The warning was probably a few decades too late to heed	The2ndWheel	Apr 2012	#13
Warmongers make mo money.	lonestarnot	Apr 2012	#15
Couldn't have said it any better than that	FlaGatorJD	Apr 2012	#18
'Cuz: $ $ $.	Arugula Latte	Apr 2012	#19
Ike would be considered too liberal	Golden Raisin	Apr 2012	#20
What about Eisenhower's own involvement with the coups in Guatemala and Iran?	DutchLiberal	Apr 2012	#24
Sadly, It's Quite the Opposite	smoking357	Apr 2012	#25

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