Open your eyes to why we're at war

I appreciate when someone goes out and does the research:

"The Bush White House is a wholey owned subsidiary of Weapons R Us. The National Institute for Public Policy, which hired several so-called thinkers from weapons makers has three alumni in the Bush Administration. The Center for Security Policy, which has 8 weapons executives on its board, has 22 former board members or associates in the Bush Cheney gang. Thirty-two major appointees in the Bush Administration are former executives, consultants, or significant shareholders of weapons companies. Seven members of the Bush Administration came from Northrop Grumman and eight from Lockheed Martin - on whose board Dick Cheney's wife served until 2001, receiving a half a million dollars for whatever it was she did."

David Swanson has done an excellent job of research into why we've been at war since before my birth and if we don't get an independent media, long after our bones are dust. While he places the obvious connections to the current andministration, this pattern was in play long before Eisenhower gave us his closing act warning. Our culture has long been a lifelong indoctrination into the rah, rah, defense of the flag with some current evil we have to conquer from the heathens at our founding to the almost omnipotent "terarists" of today.
I really like his renaming of our war department from "Department of Defense" to "Department of Attack."

Now, into the circle file...