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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (208089)	11/9/2006 11:25:07 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

During the Cold War, we had some REAL worries that the military-industrial (and now government) complex could play to. We were facing down communists with the capability to destroy not ONE city with a nuke, but ALL our cities, just as we had (and STILL have) the capability to destroy ALL of theirs. So, THEN, the massive military expenditures might be justified. No longer. Add up the entire military budget of the surviving "Axis of Evil" and compare it to ours: globalsecurity.org US = 466 billion (not counting Iraq - 2004 figures) Axis of Evil = 10.2 billion ( Iran and N. Korea ) We've obviously been the victims of some EXPERT fear mongers, able to puff the slightest hint of a threat into a NEW Soviet Union. People who buy into this are complete PUSSIES, not to mention herd idiots.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (208089)	11/9/2006 12:32:26 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The military-industrial complex will not let go of its money and power even if it means destroying the republic and the world with it. There is a lot of truth to that - this Military Industrial Complex is really no different from other big corporate interests such as the tobacco industry. All these industries make their living eventually by installing huge hierarchies of parasitic middlemen and screwing people. The Military Industrial Complex has a lot more money than the tobacco industry and can use the fear factor that Hermann Goering talked about. But the outright lies fed the public, that works the same in every large industry. Some are more harmful than others is all and it's never all black and white. The internet was developed in the context of this complex after all. But Smedley Butler was right when he said that "War is a racket".