As in World War II, we need to take a stand - make war profiteering illegal. President Roosevelt said, 'I don't want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster'. Harry Truman referred to war profiteering as 'treason'. And in 1953, at the height of the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower, a real war hero, said, 'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.'
I concur."
I concur with your concurrence.
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those old days make me think of don henley's "end of the innocence"
there seems to be direct correlation between the profits of the military industrial complex and size of the national deficit. a peace dividend would be nice.
You're right, of course. I just wonder what kind of social services (like medical care) we could mete out with the bucks being spent (and/or) stolen in Iraq.
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