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What I most like in this documentary is that it gives an inside look into the military industrial complex. You see how weapon systems are first being proposed, and also how Lockheed celebrates the winning of a bid. But you also see how Congress supports the military industrial complex. The arms manufacturers act very intelligently, by distributing the production facilities over all the states of America, so each and every congressman applauds when defense budget is going up. You also will see some quite extraordinarily images of ordinary people inventing bombs and producing them. What most amazed me was the high number of women involved ! And when interviewed, one of them said that she would definitively prefer making toys. But that was the job she got... What kind of economy is this ? Well, this huge logistic machinery serves the troops on the front ! Therefore, the US needs to be at war permanently.
When Eisenhower pronounced his farewell speech in 1961 he warned us that we should never let the weight of the military industrial complex "endanger our liberties or our democratic processes". However, he already knew, being president, that he himself was unable to stop them. The defense budget rose continuously when he was president, due to pressure of the Big Arms Producers on Congress.
It is also clear that the huge profits made by this industry influence directly foreign policy of the US. In 1963 Kennedy was killed by the military industrial complex, because he wanted to retreat from Vietnam and make peace with the Soviet Union. In 2001, we got a big fireworks show in New York. Do you remember how many skyscrapers collapsed ? Two ? No : three. That's weird, isn't it, when only two planes hit the WTC-towers. How do they do that ? Maybe, to prevent us from asking too many questions, we got the Patriot Act, fulfilling Eisenhower's fear that one day we will suffer from "endangering our liberties". So less than 40 years after Eisenhower's farewell speech, his predictions rang true. The US abolished its democracy in 1963, and stopped being a free country in 2001. What is left is an Evil Empire - dominating the world.
Why we fight ? For freedom ? No. For business ? Certainly. The arms industry is the biggest industry of the US, so it needs to fuel it profits by making war. And also, like a historian tells in this documentary : "The invasion of Iraq in 2003 is to reposition the US as the country that must be obeyed. It's an easy way to send a signal to the planet that the US is in charge and that it's gone do what it wants. Who defies the US must be punished." The US has no exit plan of Iraq, because 14 permanent bases have been constructed. The second biggest oil reserves of this world will be "safe" - for freedom ?
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