recomended reading Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism

[drummer55]

Read Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism and buy one for a friend. It really helps explain where were at now.

http://www.karscot.com/addicted.html

http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue19/features/dorrellandreas.php


Major General Smedley D. Butler in 1935 states why you should....

"I spent 33 years and 4 months in active service as a member of our country's most agile military force-the Marine Corps....I spent most of my time being a high-muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism...

Thus I helped make Mexico...safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in....I helped purify Nicaragua for the International banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-12. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras "right" for American fruit companies in 1903."

[BlueManDude]

1. Also try Gore Vidal's "Dreaming War"

a nifty little volume that gives an historical perspective of the current administration and of our constant need to fight an "enemy" - any "enemy".

[punpirate]

2. And Vidal's companion to that...

... Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace.