Military Industrial Complex
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex
Short clip (4 minutes) of Eisenhower speech with added context-
The Gulf of Tonkin (declassified) - staged event used as pretext for the U.S. to enter Vietnam War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin
"On 4 August 1964, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson
erroneously claimed that North Vietnamese forces had twice attacked
American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. Known today as the Gulf of
Tonkin Incident, this event spawned the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 7
August 1964, ultimately leading to open war between North Vietnam and
the United States. It furthermore foreshadowed the major escalation of
the Vietnam War in South Vietnam, which began with the landing of US
regular combat troops at Da Nang in 1965."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_tonkin_incident
"In 2005, an internal National Security Agency historical study was declassified; it concluded... "regarding August 4:
It is not simply that there is a different story as to what
happened; it is that no attack happened that night. [...] In truth,
Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of
the boats damaged on August 2."
JFK Secret Society Speech
The Senator who Suspected a JFK Conspiracy
http://senatoryarborough.tripod.com/
"Had Kennedy lived, I think we would have had no
Vietnam war, with all of its traumatic and divisive influences in
America. I think we would have escaped that. I think the world would
have escaped the 50,000 odd Americans dead and 300,000 more wounded and
over half a million more hooked on dangerous drugs ... tropical diseases
... the divisiveness of that war that so many of the people thought
unjustified and unnecessary ... and that we shouldn't have been there ...
that split this country. Many of those things have lingered
on since."
--former senator Ralph
Yarborough, interviewed in the documentary, The Men Who Killed
Kennedy: Part 5: The Witnesses
Eisenhower speaks about JFK assassination
The War Business
by Chalmers Johnson
http://www.wesjones.com/business.htm
"When a political problem becomes a business problem, a shift occurs. Responsibility is displaced and consequences diffused. This dislocation of responsibility has roots in a much older phenomenon, in which empires sought to "outsource" the enforcement of their political will. The British had their Gurkhas, Sikhs, and sepoys; the French, their Foreign Legion; the Dutch, their Ambonese; the Russians, their Cossacks; and the Japanese, their puppet armies in Manchuria, China, Indonesia, and Burma. Replacing homeland soldiers with local cannon fodder and setting one indigenous ethnic or religious group against another have often made the policing of a subordinate people easier and less expensive.
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None of this bears any relation to private enterprise, whatever else it might be called. Without the "rigors of the marketplace" only the profit remains. The biggest of all munitions companies, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, played an important behind-the-scenes role in developing support for Bush's war with Iraq. In 2002 its former vice president Bruce Jackson became chairman of a "private" lobbying organization, the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. Charter members include George Shultz and John McCain. In fiscal year 2002, Lockheed Martin received $17 billion in contracts from the Pentagon - up from $14.7 billion in 2001 - and almost $2 billion for the design of nuclear weapons from the Department of Energy. In the year prior to the war, the company's profits rose by 36 percent.
This is the future.
When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it."
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