http://www.nationalreview.com/...son/200602090808.asp

I've seldom seen VDH squirm so much. This documentary, which may have opened in a theater near you last weekend, has the GOP sweating bullets. 49.3% of New Yorkers are convinced that the goverment was complicit in 911.

VDH is from California, where the Governator entertains former SS officer Kurt Valdheim,"joost like my dadt, a goot SS man", attempts to change the constitution so he can fulfil his life long dream "of being World Emperor," and plays Nazi recordings over the phone to his freinds.

Sorry Ahnold, but ze
e job eez takuhn.

MM:

You seem to have really dropped off the edge these days, as in abadoning the use of reason to discuss topics. What gives?

Is allowing the military to take over the government
using reason? Please explain. Did I miss something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Corporatism

War Corporatism is the belief that a country engaged in warfare for a considerable period creates a corporate reliance upon war. The arms and related industries therefore end up attempting to control the outbreak of war in order to increase profits for their shareholders, large investors, and top corporate executives. War corporatism implies that companies who reap the benefits of war will constantly fight to keep the economy on a war footing in order to continue to profit and balance the economics of society as a whole. People critical of the US arms industry claim that the United States has become a prime example of war coporatism as it has been involved in near-constant warfare in some part of the globe since 1950, and point to the close ties of the political and industrial elites in the US. The links between Vice-President Dick Cheney and Halliburton are often used as an example.

That's it? The old war for Haliburton argument?

That pov doesn't exactly lend itself to seriously considering the issues at stake in, say, Iraq 2003, but posits an a priori motive for just about anything the U.S. does. Leftist tripe, imo.

That said, I do believe our military needs and budget need to be carefully scrutinized.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...y_Industrial_Complex

Eisenhower was in a position to know. Whether he is a leftist or not is a matter of opinion. Here is a story never told before by anyone who lived to tell the tale, which reveals the economic side of global domonation, and something about the 35 right-wing dictators the U.S. has supported since WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...f_an_Economic_Hitman

He's made the bestseller list entirely by word of mouth. Brave man.

Yes, MM, there is a military industrial complex, and it does drive defense spending. No, Eisenhower's pointing this out doesn't make him a Leftist. Bringing in "35 Right Wing dictators" while forgetting the communist context is disingenuous, however, and . . . (Whatever are we talking about anyway?)

This thread is closed.

Again, please do not start any new ones on the themes of corporatism and anti-Bush stuff. There are already enough of them going. As you can tell, I'm becoming ticked about this board being used for trashy Leftist ranting.