"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."
<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/dwightdei112029.html>Dwight
Eisenhower (in his military-industrial-complex speech)
Wikipedia says that the penultimate draft of DDE's military-industrial
complex speech read military-industrial-congressional complex. Food for
thought.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex
He also said this:
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to
defend from without?
Too bad so few are listening.
Here's the statistics that brought Eisenhower's warning to mind: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13976.htm
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