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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DOUG H who wrote (276865)	7/17/2002 1:28:50 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

I think we're in agreement. I'm probably more libertarian, but we need defense. The issue in the past few decades is the all-powerful central government, which has a life of its own, and dictates to the people, rather than the reverse. The powerful people in America use the levers of this all-powerful government machine, including and especially the excess military spook machinery we pay for, in lives and taxes. I'm a bit of a radical, however, in thinking this spook-driven military inevitably looks for war, regardless of utility. As such, and against the wishes of the American people, we have gone into 200 military adventures in 50 years, and will continue to see the media and Congress manipulated, and the administration selected, by those who favor the military-industrial power structure. The Nazi propaganda references are interesting to me, in that those operations are starting to look vaguely familiar. The Germans were much better at fascism than Italians. The tendency is there in our current structure, as noted previously by General Smedly Butler, and after that by Project Northwoods, and many other instances. Without overwhelming self-justifying secrecy, these crimes couldn't as easily occur.