Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel: "Eisenhower's Warning"

What's the difference between Congress and NASCAR drivers?

A: NASCAR drivers wear the names of their corporate sponsors all over their clothing.

Who is the Military Industrial Complex? Names, LLC's, Lobbyists?

Whose in Military Industrial Complex? Pretty much the entire Congress is. Gravel himself probably has ties w/it, although I'd hate to admit that. This is a campaign speech; statements which usually are at odds w/what a given cadidate will do once elected. Look at Obama who promised to end our involvement in Bush's wars, now ramping them up.

A good and recent book about the MIC is Nick Turse's 'The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives' (Metropolitan Boooks 2008).

I'm pleased that he actually tackled the issues but he forgot Kennedy was on his way to ending the Cuban embargo and was trying to end the cold war. Furthermore by singing bill 263 he would have withdrawn the few troops and and left just advisors in Viet Nam. But he was snufffed out and the first thing LBJ did was reverse bill 263.

Gavel 4 president, I'm Canadian, and I'd vote 4 him.

Damn right! Corporations getting in bed with government is one of the main sources of our problems in this country.

Why don't most Americans listen to men like Mike Gravel, or even a Ron Paul? They make a lot of sense.

Thats a damn good question. I've been trying to find that out for years.

Because most Americans are STUPID...simple as that!

Conservative77 speaks the damn truth here.