 masbury says: Military - industrial complex beyond Eisenhower's wildest dreams: Lawmakers have millions invested in defense contractors; Almost all major US corporations rake in huge profits from the Pentagon. War means BU$INE$$ ... Money for destruction. It has to catch up to us someday. And then no matter how rich you are. You will be paying a heavy price. We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. We may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.~Dwight D. Eisenhower Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with n... We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives...inside ourselves. ~Albert Camus Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? ~Barbara Bush About the quote: Mrs. Bush spoke these words on ABC's "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003. Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later. ~Benjamin Franklin War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. ~Congressman Ron Paul We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower and thanks, masbury, for reminding us of the REAL reason we are in Iraq and Afghanistan--$$$$ Great quotes, thanks! I'm filing these away! |
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