Eisenhower - Military/Industrial Complex - Part 2 of 2

[officeaddict33]

Ron Paul 2012 !!

[Omegax9000]

should add subtitles

[mjfrattaroli]

...and so ended genuine statesmanship in the White House.

[bucknorm]

But look how Allen Dulles ran wild with the CIA during Ike's two terms!!

Ike was the master of propganda for example his "Atoms for Peace" campaign run by the USIA.

The words "freedom" and "hope" are great words that really don't have much substance. Suck it all in you proles and the next time some blue-glove wearin ATF goon is feeling up your naughty parts at the airport don't come cryin to me

about how we got to this point in history.

[nagone11]

Man...this man knew the deal and knew what was coming for the future. He tried to warn us and left us his message to echo!!

[IceManLikeGervin]

It's happening right now- wake up!!!!

[MrSunlander]

Weren't the military and defense industries happy that most of us did not give a damn or even pay heed to this speech? Vietnam, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq,

[FredFoothand]

Thank You

[phillyphilhouse79]

We need to resurrect President Ike, President Theodore Roosevelt, President George Washington, President Lincoln, President FDR, and even President Reagon. These guys could come back and clean house. Please if I missed a few add them on as a dream team to take over our current govt and teach them what this country is really all about.

[JiveDadson]

@phillyphilhouse79 Nix on Roosevelt (either) and Lincoln (Abe). Lincoln instigated by far the biggest disaster in American history. He was insane. He was a war criminal and a white supremacist.

My list would comprise those presidents who did the least. That's the kind we want. Congress too. They've been writing laws and imposing taxes for over 220 years. One would think that we would have enough laws and taxes by now. Thomas Jefferson was a great president. Grover Cleveland was not bad.

[phillyphilhouse79]

@JiveDadson Oh yeah Thomas Jefferson was a good President I have to agree on that. The early early Presidents who were all in on the Constitution knew their shit and sadly we cant experience that kind of Leadership anymore.

[99missingperson99]

@phillyphilhouse79

The early presidents were still a split between those that put the defense for the american people in it and those that were elitists trying to create a servant/master relationship. Like Madison was an elitist who was angry that Jefferson kept putting blocks in to prevent future abuse.

[distressed7]

@JiveDadson We will have to clean house. One way or another.

[H1N1Conspiracynews]

@phillyphilhouse79 u forgot JFK...

[shavis001]

@phillyphilhouse79 Judge Dread and Arnold from Predator.

[brmillgr]

@phillyphilhouse79 Jefferson

[brmillgr]

@phillyphilhouse79 Jefferson

[NattyMarcus]

Hmmmm

Should have done this backwards :)

[NattyMarcus]

Its very discomforting that Kennedy had signed the orders to take all advisors back home from Vietnam if he won the election. But they got him before that and as a result 58000 us soldier gave their lies in a war not approved by the congress. And thus unconstitutional

Sorry for getting carried away, but please answer me why Reagan???

or am i hopefully wrong on this.

[NattyMarcus]

Why is it you Americans hold Reagan so high???

Did not he sell advanced missiles to Iran, using the money from them to enrich his criminal lackeys. But also found a terrorist organization like contras who slaughtered innocent men woman and children by the 10´s of thousand. And all hidden from the congress and the American people. He and his administration is exactly what Eisenhower in this speech warns of and later JFK did in his truth speech.

[kjbhlogkh]

Eisenhower was the last great president this country ever had! It is no mistake to say that Eisenhower was a far better president than Reagan was. I want everyone here to know that Clinton could not answer any question about the industrial military complex, and he showed he was not all that intelligent. I will make this case that Eisenhower was not a puppet, and Mr. Clinton be disregarded for not knowing anything about the industrial military complex. We need another president like Eisenhower!

[senorsquiid]

@kjbhlogkh I suspect Clinton knew a thing or two about the Military Industrial Complex, but wasn't willing to talk shit about his bosses in public.

Bush on the other hand LOVED his bosses and was more than happy to let them run wild. Clinton managed to keep them slightly in check, but once we got Bush they had their man in office. And then 9/11 hapened and while the rest of us stared on in horror, they stared on thinking"Holy shit we're going to make a mint now!"

[SvendTofte]

I feel compelled to simply post and say how strong a speech this is. Amazing oratory, piercing insight and a willingness to say it.

[TheSilencer1313]

Obama is a puppet, Eisenhower was his own man.

[senorsquiid]

@TheSilencer1313 Whatever Obama ends up being is yet to be seen. I'm not entirely pleased with him, but he's better than that last guy. Still undecided on Obama. He's still got a while to go, and while I'm not especially optimistic, I won't mind admitting he didn't do a bad job if he ends up not doing a bad job.

Unfortunately he's no Eisenhower.

[ananamarfo]

The problem is, Americans have failed to listen to both eisenhower and kennedy and are paying the price...i really dnt knw how or when they'll b able to recover.

[TAKIZAWAYAMASHITA]

SO TRUE america has failed to listen and now its to late to stop it unless civil war thats the only way to stop it

[senorsquiid]

@TAKIZAWAYAMASHITA Going to war against the makers and masters of war prooobably isn't the best idea.

[TAKIZAWAYAMASHITA]

@senorsquiid it is the best idea because they dont want a civil war thats the only way you can fix shit like that look at iran look at china you wana live like them the only way to make freedom there is for the people tostand up and say enough bullshit

[martok666]

What a powerful speech from Eisenhower, i dont know much about him but he did things during his presidency that wore so horrific to man kind, if bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki opened his eyes to the monstrosity that is the military industrial complex the I fear there is no hope for this country.

[gpciie]

The military-industrial complex still reigns today. God help us to seek and to desire peace over financial and political expediency.

[Luigi84289]

no he didn't the last time we had peace was from 1953 - 1964. Sure we were in the cold war but no active conflict. Our boys were safe at home. If people had listened to him and Kennedy we might be able to salvage our falling nation.

[Turk1389]

@martok666 Eisenhower did not order the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, that was Truman, Ike actually ended the Korean war within 6 months of taking office & kept America out of any wars throughout is entire administration by using diplomacy. Had he served another term, America would never have gone to war in Vietnam.

[senorsquiid]

@martok666 You're thinking of Truman.

[mzambo666]

Thanks for the video

[bwelkk]

People call Obama a great orator.

He is not. Eisenhower would make him look sophomoric.

[ABoy877]

He only reads it off some tabloids and still messes it up here and there. I f you havent noticed, obama actually memorizes all his speeches!

[senorsquiid]

@ABoy877 Obama uses a teleprompter for his longer speeches, but I don't hold that against him because he has to give a loooot of speeches, and unless he has superhuman memory there's no way he could realistically memorize it all.

He IS good at the unscripted Q&As though.

[PaddyIrishMan2]

Ike gave this speech 48 years ago today. They are as applicable today as they were then.

[dandd284]

I fear that we have already peaked as a country, probably in the 50s. We have been on a slow descent ever since. Greed now rules our lives. The party in power means nothing; they are basically the same.

[GeneralAmericaJr]

Thank, Mr. President.

[Konform2zoidberg]

General Eisenhower was, ironically, the last president to try to take on the Pentagon. I am not optimistic about Obama :(

[Neighborthatlabors]

Guys its time to really do something Go to school get educated. Your informed now. I don't mean going to school to learn how to think in the most compatible way with our consumer society. But to look to the past...The past befor its totally changed and forgotten.

[Powerglide1A]

This is what a president should sound like, how he should speak, and what he should say. How far our leaders have fallen. And it's no one's fault but our own.

[rebelibral]

"together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."

Now that is significant.

[Rasaby]

Here is a leader saying what is true to all man kind. class is the seed of all evil in man not money. money was made for a trade the same way a got was traded for a frog .

[bstep13]

this is from 1961 the sound is great good Digital Mastering sounds like it just came out!!!!

[CheeezMaster]

Dwight could warn all the universe till he was blue in the face, but the fact remains that nobody would listen.

And look at us now.

[goose420w]

aint that the truth

[Bloodreich42]

ha, read "war is a Racket" google it. pretty much explains how industry ripped off americans during the 1st WW.

[120473pc]

We do not often have the oportunity to hear a great statesman nowadays. It is amazing how he manages to analyze complex problems of modern society and express them and their solutions in a simple manner understandable to everyone .A great leader.

[sfldd]

And now we have a president who can't even put together a subject and a predicate.

[rmrm1mrmr]

Military Industrial Complex then:

military+war= money for industry

Now:

military+war=money for industry= money for congressional and presidential elections= more wars.

When war becomes profitable we will see more of it.

[lacrosstballz]

I love the way you broke this down in an equation. I am going to have to steal it.

[mbleek2001]

wow great speech....i agree with you concernedpatriot..

[Dreaded88]

It died Nov. 22 1963 in Dallas Texas.

[hammmeggs]

Wow...Eisenhower was the man.

[noselfnoproblemo]

YOUTUBE!!!! GOD BLESS YOU TUBE!

[sammckane]

This is very Important!! Should be used as a retort to the General Petraeus/Betray Us debaucle.

[panterastang]

the new fuhrer is afraid of horses.

[concernedpatriot]

Amazing how much he got right. I sent a letter to Obermann suggesting that he air this speech to the American public, and it be played out loud to ALL of the Congress. There are many words of wisdom here. Could I suggest a modification to this presentation that might make even more of an impact...a flowing banner of text across the screen during the speech, but not the entire text. Rather just some of the excerpts, as they are so relevant to the situations we find ourselves in today

[C3POROBOT]

Possibly the greatest speech ever written.

[duba3988]

What incredible foresight lol

[JakeandElwoodBlues]

Eisenhower was a smart man. Kennedy was a dumbass not unlike his still living brother "Ted".

[monkeydog2332]

Trying to pull us out of Vietnam, disband the federal reserve and preserve the Constitution...yeah JakeandElwood, I can see why you would think Kennedy was a dumbass. (if you hate America, that is)

[festus3030]

WOW , great speech. He seen the U.S. military complex coming into power as President and tried to warn the U.S. population. He seemed to know that all future Presidents wouldn't have power over the M.I.C. Very prophetic. Too bad that men like Eisenhower, ( That speak the truth), Will never become President of the U.S. again.

[david135]

Mind Boggling, absolutely mind boggling

Be like Ike

[MerryMountaineers]

An inspiring and wise speech indeed.

[amandahfalls]

A President who makes me shut up and hang my hat in rapt attention. Wow, I,ll never have this. Vote Ron Paul.

[wervasdeferens]

How prophetic! Maybe we need to elect more Generals to lead America! Many have spoken out against Bush et al and the war

[bapyou]

Hurray! A Republican with a brain! Compare President Eisenhower's intelligent discussion with the low-brow drivel read out by George Dumber-than-ya Bush.

[OperationNorthwoods]

Eisenhower was also terrorist (Operation Ajax) - even right in this subject...Pearl harbor's 1+2+3

[bapyou]

Don't know much about Operation Ajax. Eisenhower also played his part in involving the U.S. in Vietnam. We are all doomed anyway.

[OperationNorthwoods]

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[OperationNorthwoods]

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[1d10cy]

Was it Eisenhower, or was it elements beyond his control or sphere of influence, does one man really choose policy? He waited till he left the presidency for his warning, we saw what happens to someone trying to combat these elements whilst still in office (jfk)

[1d10cy]

jfk had a similar speach

[OperationNorthwoods]

YES...It was PAX AMERICANA :D

[1d10cy]

Yes Eisenhower was part of it, or yes it was out of his sphere of influence. To me leaders are nothing more than the ultimate patsies.

[OperationNorthwoods]

Yes. I invendednew system. People owns companies- and with one nation and country only with Rational economy.

And not manufacturing trash. But it never will come because homo sapiens is stupid specie...and it will die to it's own selfiness.

[1d10cy]

Well, I agree that we will destroy ourselves, I would be totally surprised if we survived the next 150 years.

[1d10cy]

Or actually I wont be anything by then

[OperationNorthwoods]

:D I will...but let's just keep this just between us ;D

[OperationNorthwoods]

:) sORRY THAT i DIDN'T ANSWER YOU BEFORE. fUNNY. 2 IMES iTRIED...BUT I had used all my messages (temporary "spamming" protection option in Youtube)