America – Why do We Fight ?

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• This is a BBC documentary on the business of war. The 20th century has seen the proliferation of weapons of all kinds. The innovation behind it is startling. More frightening is how the military corporations profit so much from war. Documentary traces the history of the militarization of America via these military corporations from WW2 onwards.
   
• President Eisenhower termed it as the military industrial complex (MIC). MIC must create wars to continue the growth of it’s business to maintain profitability. Are wars about fighting for freedom, democracy and our way of life? Or is it about MIC trying to sell more weapons, test new weapons, expand their business, increase their sales? Good documentary!
   
• Snippets :
  • The war in Iraq had nothing to do with the war on terrorism. There was a huge leap, a manufactured leap, in order to implement a very calculated and pre-developed foreign policy.
     
  • They (Japanese in WW2) were trying to surrender all that summer (1945). Truman wouldn’t listen. Because Truman wanted to drop the Bombs (Atomic Bombs) to show off. To frighten Stalin. To change the balance of power in the world. To declare war on communism. Perhaps we were starting a preemptive World War.
     
  • Eisenhower hated the dropping of the atomic bombs and thought it should not been done. Eisenhower wished we had not invented the atomic bomb.
     
  • Eisenhower – Modern weapons take food from the hungry and shelter from the homeless. He was fighting with the Pentagon all the time.
     
  • Eisenhower - Watch out for the Military Industrial Complex!
  • John McCain – President Eisenhower’s concern about the Military Industrial Complex. His words have unfortunately come true. He was worried that priorities are set by the benefits to corporations as oppose to what benefits the country.
     
  • Profits (for MIC) went up last year well over 25%. When war becomes that profitable you are going to see more of it.
     
  • We have been lied to in every military escapade, frankly over the last 50-60 years. Without exception, there is no better example probably than Vietnam, where you had the president of the United States and the top generals in the Pentagon out and out lying about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and got us into the war.
     
  • Anyone who has ever looked closely at the Vietnam war can see that the public and the media were manipulated substantially.
     
  • Control of oil is indispensable. When you run out of it your army stops.
     
  • We made a puppet out of Saddam Hussein who was a friend of ours. He was a CIA asset. We did so because he was Anti Iranian. We supported Saddam Hussein with weapons and intelligence when he was losing the war against Iran.
     
  • These guys were manipulating public opinion, creating falsehood, fantasies to inspire fear in the American people so that they could have their war.
     
  • If you join the military now you are not defending the United States of America. You are helping certain policy maker pursue an imperial agenda.
     
• Daniel 7 :
   
   9 ‘The fourth beast shall be
        A fourth kingdom on earth,
        Which shall be different from all other kingdoms,
        And shall devour the whole earth,
        Trample it and break it in pieces. 
      
• Daniel 11 :
   
  37 He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all.
   
  38 But in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses; and a god which his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant things.
   
  39 Thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, which he shall acknowledge, and advance its glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain.

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