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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3351607" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><a href="https://www.salon.com/2016/03/29/we_are_the_death_merchant_of_the_world_ex_bush_official_lawrence_wilkerson_condemns_military_industrial_complex/" target="_blank">“We are the death merchant of the world”: Ex-Bush official Lawr...</a></p><p></p><p>Was Bill Clinton’s expansion of NATO — after George H. W. Bush and [his Secretary of State] James Baker had assured Gorbachev and then Yeltsin that we wouldn't go an inch further east — was this for Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon, and Boeing, and others, to <strong>increase their network of potential weapon sales?" </strong>Wilkerson asked.</p><p></p><p></p><p>"You bet it was," he answered.</p><p></p><p>"Is there a penchant on behalf of the Congress to bless the use of force more often than not because of the constituencies they have and the money they get from the defense contractors?" Wilkerson continued.</p><p></p><p>Again, he answered his own question: "You bet."</p><p></p><p>"It's not like Dick Cheney or someone like that went and said let's have a war because we want to make money for Halliburton, but it is a pernicious on decision-making," the former Bush official explained. "And the fact that they donate so much money to congressional elections and to PACs and so forth is another pernicious influence."</p><p></p><p>"Those who deny this are just being utterly naive, or they are complicit too," Wilkerson added.</p><p></p><p>There are an estimated <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/30/cashing-in-on-the-decision-to-keep-u-s-troops-in-afghanistan/" target="_blank">30,000 military contractors</a> working for the Pentagon in Afghanistan today; they <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/29/the-new-unknown-soldiers-of-afghanistan-and-iraq/" target="_blank">outnumber</a> U.S. troops three-to-one. Thousands more are in Iraq.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Lockheed Martin simpl<strong>y "plans to sell every aspect of missile defense that it can,"</strong> regardless of whether it is needed, Wilkerson said. And what is best to maximize corporate interest is by no means necessarily the same as what is best for average citizens.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>"We dwarf the Russians or anyone else who sells weapons in the world," </strong>the retired Army colonel continued.</p><p></p><p><strong>“We are the death merchant of the world.”</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3351607, member: 56035"] [URL='https://www.salon.com/2016/03/29/we_are_the_death_merchant_of_the_world_ex_bush_official_lawrence_wilkerson_condemns_military_industrial_complex/']“We are the death merchant of the world”: Ex-Bush official Lawr...[/URL] Was Bill Clinton’s expansion of NATO — after George H. W. Bush and [his Secretary of State] James Baker had assured Gorbachev and then Yeltsin that we wouldn't go an inch further east — was this for Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon, and Boeing, and others, to [B]increase their network of potential weapon sales?" [/B]Wilkerson asked. "You bet it was," he answered. "Is there a penchant on behalf of the Congress to bless the use of force more often than not because of the constituencies they have and the money they get from the defense contractors?" Wilkerson continued. Again, he answered his own question: "You bet." "It's not like Dick Cheney or someone like that went and said let's have a war because we want to make money for Halliburton, but it is a pernicious on decision-making," the former Bush official explained. "And the fact that they donate so much money to congressional elections and to PACs and so forth is another pernicious influence." "Those who deny this are just being utterly naive, or they are complicit too," Wilkerson added. There are an estimated [URL='http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/30/cashing-in-on-the-decision-to-keep-u-s-troops-in-afghanistan/']30,000 military contractors[/URL] working for the Pentagon in Afghanistan today; they [URL='http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/29/the-new-unknown-soldiers-of-afghanistan-and-iraq/']outnumber[/URL] U.S. troops three-to-one. Thousands more are in Iraq. Lockheed Martin simpl[B]y "plans to sell every aspect of missile defense that it can,"[/B] regardless of whether it is needed, Wilkerson said. And what is best to maximize corporate interest is by no means necessarily the same as what is best for average citizens. [B] "We dwarf the Russians or anyone else who sells weapons in the world," [/B]the retired Army colonel continued. [B]“We are the death merchant of the world.”[/B] [/QUOTE]
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