War: A piece of cake--for America

[coberst]

War: A piece of cake—for America!

 

America has 1.4 million in the military with 900,000 Reserves. All of these are hired-hands; all are volunteers seeking a job. Of these, 42 % are racial or ethnic minorities. Of these, 6.5% have had “some kind of exposure to college education”.

 

The economy today fights the war in Afghanistan and Iraq at a cost 0.1% of what the economy had to pay to win WWII; this figure is based upon Defense Department budget being 4% of GDP.

 

Thus says David M. Kennedy “In the Fourth of July debate about the state of American democracy, Kennedy, a historian at Stanford, suggested that war making was becoming too easy for American policy makers.” This article appeared in “The Atlantic” magazine.

 

Kennedy didn’t mention the wealth this war effort has brought to these self-same industrial leaders who influence public policy. Also he did not mention that most, if not all, of funds on Iraq and Afghanistan war is borrowed money.

[Tarantism]

as far as i know the war in Afghanistan and Iraq has thrown us nito debt. i think that to say that war is easy for america is an egotistical statement, because we cheat! our propaganda is some of the best and most subliminal there is, we employ all of the top war-machine manufacturers, and we have the largest army in the world because of the "benifits" that are promised.

 

haliburton, big tabacco and oil giants have our government in their back pockets. or rather, their checkbooks. is it any suprise that our obviously pro-war vice president is practically employee of the month at haiburton? there are too many alternative motivations other than those presented to an ignorant public for this nations wars at the moment. its alarming.

 

a game played with dishonesty is a game won with shame.

[Southtown]

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