former CIA analyst says that US weapon manufactures are keeping the country in perpetual wars because they are making a lot of money out of these conflicts.
“Weapon manufactures [are] the people who are profiteering on these wars, and they are contributing to our Congress people and they are actually pulling the strings of our President [Barack Obama],” Ray McGovern told Press TV.

McGovern noted that the Unites States’ stated objective in launching wars was to stem terrorism but the effect has been just the opposite and this has allowed weapon manufacturing factories to sell more arms.

He further pointed out that these wars have not only taken the lives of many innocent civilians but also fueled anti-American sentiments around the world, especially in the Middle East.

“They (people) hate our invasion of Afghanistan; they hate our invasion of Iraq; they hate our drone attacks on Pakistan,” McGovern said.

The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 with the aim of toppling the Taliban regime, claiming the militants had refused to hand over Osama bin Laden.

The US also invaded Iraq in 2003 under the pretext of destroying alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) belonging to former dictator Saddam Hussein.

Many civilians, including women and children, have been killed as a result of these wars.

The US-led war in Afghanistan, with civilian and military casualties at record highs, has become the longest war in the US history.

http://www.bobtuskin.com/2011/08/10/us-wars-benefit-weapon-manufactures/

DUH!

wow... dude.. groundbreaking news here..

I guess they use magic to make the stuff.. No workers in their facilities.

what a deal we got eh?

The U.S. Air Force has spent billions researching and developing stealth fighter jets to surpass any others.
But despite constructing nearly 200 of the high-tech aircraft, every single one is grounded
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024300/Entire-U-S-stealth-aircraft-fleet-grounded-oxygen-power-faults.html#ixzz1UeyS6CU1

Military Industrial Complex.


President Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation, January 1961

"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together...."

www.disclosureproject.org

Well duh!

We felt the effects in Vietnam.

NEWSFLASH

Munchies benefit Doritos manufacturers!!

thats good but this is my favorite.


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 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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969)

Every cool ranch Dorito crunched is a victory for Frito-Lay!

I blame the Jews.

Armies have to practice killing people somewhere.

So true. They train and train and train... and for what? WAR!

Like that guy in Stripes who said, as they went on their rescue mission..."... now I will finally get to kill someone!"