[lit-ideas] Re: Statistics to make your jaw drop...
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:57:15 -0700
Ursula,
Synchronicity. There's a film called _Why We Fight_, a documentary drawing
from Eisenhower's speeches. I just got word that it's being sent to me.
Wonder whether it will be what I expect. Or the very opposite?
Carol
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From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Statistics to make your jaw drop...
> "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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