Which '08 candidate is gonna make the Military Industrial Complex a major issue ?

I really think the people stupid enough to be able to successfully have that criticism be spun to them as anti-military or something already have their vote locked up by Republicans.

but the Democratic Party is filled with corporate war politicians. Kucinich is a long shot. Hillary will likely gain the nom. She's just like her husband, plays the liberal card to the liberals, and then goes behind the scenes and tells the corporate war bosses that their interests are safe.

Since he was the only one to raise it in 2004 (if he runs, I should add).

Sorry, poster above, but Kucinich didn't raise it then - Clark did.

which is obviously more accurate. No major candidate will for the same reason Eisenhower deleted Congressional in the final speech, political blowback.

http://kucinich.us/issues/militarybudget.php

This budget chooses war over health care, tax cuts over education, special interests over the needs of the nation, and rich over poor.

Few politicians have the courage to raise the obvious questions of the military industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about and which no one else seems to see. While we spend approximately what the rest of the world combined does on their military (with most of the big spending nations our allies!), we have tremendous waste. While many retired generals and admirals have stated that at least 15% waste could be cut from past military budgets, politicians seem to panic when the administration refers to the military budget as our "security" budget.

Does anyone seriously believe that the Iraq War is a defensive war against an enemy that struck us or would have struck us?

Most Americans now realize that using 19 hijackers armed with knives or box cutters as a pretext for a war in Iraq or for trillions of dollars of additional defense expenditures makes no sense and is about as honest as was the case for war. The terrorists have no submarines, planes, or armies. Yet, a small group of fanatics with small arms has been used to justify some $5,000 per taxpayer per year in military expenditures. It is likely that the war in Iraq will cost each taxpayer about $15,000 above that.

Militarism not only invites military solutions to diplomatic problems, but also destroys the economic dreams of countless families and ultimately sabotages our entire economy, as Chalmers Johnson points out in The Sorrows of Empire.

ps. I like that ticket!

...Kucinich. And that's exactly why he won't get the nom (amoung other things). Of course, someone could surprise us, but how likely is that?

check out the Clark group on DU, lots of info there.