U.S. Military protecting our freedom, or corporate interests?

I've said in the past that I would never join the U.S. military, not because I hate my country as I'm sure a lot of ignorant right-wingers would like you to think, but because our military is being used to further our corrupt politician's imperialistic agenda and protect corporate interests.


Doesn't that sound like it came out of the mouth of a crazy lefty pot-smoking anti-war hippie?


Well let's here what a retired Lt. Col. who spent 20 years in the U.S. military and worked at the Defense Dept. has to say about what our military is really about and if they'd let their children join:

Lt. Col. Kwiatkowski tells it like it is

Clip from the documentary "Why We Fight".

'Why We Fight' - documentary about military industrial complex

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He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.

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