Eisenhower 's TV Warning about "Military Industrial Complex"

In President and General Dwight David Eisenhower 's farewell Address to the Nation he warned Americans about the "persist"ant threat to our liberties by the "military industrial complex". This was the first known use of that expression.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex

One interesting sidebar is this letter Ike wrote to his brother concerning the use of the Atomic Bomb in Japan.


letter to his brother Edgar, November 8, 1954

"I voiced to him (Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the (atomic)bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives."

Stimson,of course, pushed for dropping TWO atomic bombs and equally "of course" Stimson was a member of the multi-generational skull and bones cult of elitist crooks,killers(by remote control) and war mongers.
"Henry Lewis Stimson S&B 1888"

Those who subscribe to "coincidence theories" will not find this side bar interesting but those who are not coincidence theorists will.

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[aewester]

Dominate everyone? Really? Do we need that? Should it happen? Ever heard of the Roman Empire? British Empire? Persian Empire? Byzantine Empire? French Empire? Russian Empire? Syrian Empire? Mongol Empire? What about the current American Empire? Not just our military one, consisting of over 700 worldwide bases, but our "globalizing" capitalist one. Are we gonna keep it all up? The American Empire will fall, just as all others have done before it. Keep trying to defy history and humanity.

[queenoftheland]

He knew it back then and Ron Paul knows it today. We the People let this happen and We the People can change it.

[dudelikesWoW]

It really says something when I, a socialist, say that a Republican was the best leader this country has ever had. If we had listened to him, this country would be so much better. So much more free. It's a shame no one did, and now my generation is left with the authoritarian corporate state.

[Tyco200]

@lastritesread And though he failed to Obama due to folly of fear of being "Racists", Ron Paul will lead the Revolution against the NWO. Ron Paul 2012!

[PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD]

@dave98503 Because then defense contractors will own our government. And wage war just so that they can continue to make money.

[jackieevans]

Explanation of corporations influence to manufacture deceit in order to sell us weapons we do not need. The great space race in the 60's was crap because we really were not in a race at all. The corps and politicians sold us that lie and the president knew it. He was outraged. Look at haliburton and you can tell our president was ahead of his time.

[siamsurf]

Everyone in doubt needs to watch "Wake Up Call", everyone not doing so will regret it later.

"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

[moproducer]

But hey, if we dominate everyone on the planet, they'll hate our guts, burn our flag, throw shoes at our President, innundate us with tariff-free imported goods, send illegal immigrants over to take our jobs, aim nukes at us, blast our World Trade Center to bits, buy up our land, real properties, banks, manufacturing companies, hold us in debt...what's wrong with any of that?

[naomimh]

what you say is all too true. i'm just your standard anglo woman born and raised in this country, and i fear every day that america will be annihilated within my lifetime... and it rattles my mind that more people don't realize what will inevitably happen to this country if we don't humble ourselves to outside forces and powers beyond our control.

[BrightEyedPortishead]

If there is one thing about history we can learn from, it is how governments and civilizations fail EVERY TIME they try to dominate!!!!

[dave98503]

What is wrong with a military

industrial complex?

we need weapons to be the most powerful

and to dominate everyone and keep the economy going.