Is there any way to make War Profiteering as much an evil as Gay Marriage?

It is a matter of life and death......

I do think they overplayed it all by now and many americans aren't buying ANY of the spin anymore.

I see the public hardening against their tactics now that they see how they use them.

the other war industries, make a lot of money, and do that.

and they were acquiring all they needed to dominate the public perception and debate.

killing for profit is a republican tradition.

not even innocent people kissing their lives goodbye. just ask a fundie!

try again.

is bad is a great one and one that needs to be pushed by Democrats on the hill. After all, it is their job as congresspersons to see to it congressional oversight ("oversight"- I think they may have forgetten about this) is maintained.

Well, that was my best shot.

:shrug:

It would be appropriate, but the answer would still be "no". Because among the usual suspects who currently consider themselves equipped to deliver public judgement for the rest of us, not disturbing the socioeconomic status quo is job #1. Thus it's perfectly acceptable to titter about sexual issues like 10-year olds, and then piously embrace social structures which produce generations of reliable workers and defame any behaviors which don't support that. Similarly, who would dare to question the profits of Halliburton, KBR and Dyncorp when your best buds run them; after all, if their right to profit were called into question, yours might be as well. And after all, since the free market is always the best solution to delivering goods and services, and since success is a sign of being in the right (he was able to argue his position loudly, so it must be his "character" emanating from the rightness of that position which gives him the fortitude to do so), self-interest is by nature enlightened (as long as you succeed at pursuing it, that's proof after all) and so there is no possible justification for questioning it. We are moral people after all.

It's amusing to argue with simpletons who think that circular reasoning (I am strong because I am right, I would not be strong if I were not right, and my strength therefore proves that I am right) passes for argumentation. There's currently a rich crop of them occupying the executive branch.

a genetic or developmental trait, rather than a lifestyle choice. ;-)

Look at all the benefits hetero couples get.

Hell, I'm amazed they haven't dismantled hetero marriage benefits by now!