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KoKo

(84,711 posts)
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 08:16 PM Dec 2015

Fmr. Bush Official Reveals --The Pentagon/MIC More Important than Congress or The People!

Empire Files: Fmr. Bush Official says the Empire's Ship is Sinking
Published on Dec 11, 2015

Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff says Pentagon is the Problem and it Rules our Presidents more than Congress or the American People (Voters).

Abby Martin interviews retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations. Today, he is honest about the unfixable corruption inside the establishment and the corporate interests driving foreign policy.

Hear a rare insider's view of what interests are behind U.S. wars, the manipulation of intelligence, the intertwining of the military and corporate world, and why the U.S. Empire is doomed.
http://multimedia.telesurtv.net/v/the...

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Fmr. Bush Official Reveals --The Pentagon/MIC More Important than Congress or The People! (Original Post) KoKo Dec 2015 OP
When will we learn to listen. forest444 Dec 2015 #1
The money quote: Raster Dec 2015 #4
+1,000,000 Dont call me Shirley Dec 2015 #16
Know Thy Enemy - Oligarchs, Corporations, Banks And Their Media Minions And MIC Henchmen cantbeserious Dec 2015 #2
Interesting is it not. Wellstone ruled Dec 2015 #3
We The People are going to have to get sick of this, angry enough to do something about it. Dont call me Shirley Dec 2015 #5
^^THIS^^!! 2naSalit Dec 2015 #15
Thank you. LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #6
He does lay it all out... KoKo Dec 2015 #7
Thank you Captain Obvious! BadGimp Dec 2015 #8
K&R Koko Pharaoh Dec 2015 #9
K&R dgauss Dec 2015 #10
Yes, Patraeus Was Running His Own Private War McKim Dec 2015 #11
K&R Everybody should watch this. JEB Dec 2015 #12
Thanks for all who watched and Recommended. KoKo Dec 2015 #17
The North Koreans call this Songun. Amazing. Our government wants to adopt that Feeling the Bern Dec 2015 #13
In the OP's video, Colonel Lawrence deemed the cost of recruiting is unsustainable mrdmk Dec 2015 #14

Raster

(20,998 posts)
4. The money quote:
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 08:58 PM
Dec 2015

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Interesting is it not.
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 08:58 PM
Dec 2015

Amazing how many in this Country do not have a clue as to who what and why. Mr. Sanders is pushing back at these people and you are seeing first hand how the Powerful are reacting. If one wants to see evidence of their power,did anyone who campaigned against the MIC ever win? Not.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
5. We The People are going to have to get sick of this, angry enough to do something about it.
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 09:01 PM
Dec 2015

Refuse to participate.

Thanks for posting, KoKo. This should have thousands of views and recs!

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
7. He does lay it all out...
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 09:53 PM
Dec 2015

and, Abby, I thought, did a good job of interviewing him with tough questions.

Thanks to all those who bothered to watch it.

McKim

(2,412 posts)
11. Yes, Patraeus Was Running His Own Private War
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 12:17 AM
Dec 2015

Yes, Patraeus was running his own private war over there. He had office space for his Neocon friends and Florida Iran-Contra gun running friends over there. Obama was irrelevant. The Pentagon IS running our foreign policy. This is truly frightening. I wish that
Colin Powell would tell more loud and clear.

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
17. Thanks for all who watched and Recommended.
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 10:09 PM
Dec 2015

Other Views from former Admin Reps are important for History. So, that "Mistakes".... Don't Repeat?

mrdmk

(2,943 posts)
14. In the OP's video, Colonel Lawrence deemed the cost of recruiting is unsustainable
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 03:17 AM
Dec 2015

Here is a graphic of the Fiscal Years of 2014, 2015, and 2016 for the cost of recruiting and training:





In the report, the US Army needs to recruit 60,000 personal for the Fiscal Year of 2016. Add a new war in Syria or anywhere else, that number will go up in 2016.

link to the report: http://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/fy2016/fy2016_OM_Overview.pdf


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