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What Eisenhower REALLY Said About the “Military Industrial Complex”
You know about President and General Dwight Eisenhower’s prescient warning about the “military-industrial complex” as he left the White House?
Well, it turns out that he was really warning about the “military-industrial-congressional” complex.
42-year CIA veteran Milton Goodman explains:
In the spring of 1961, I was part of a small group of undergraduates who met with the president’s brother, Milton Eisenhower, who was then president of Johns Hopkins University. Milton Eisenhower and a Johns Hopkins professor of political science, Malcolm Moos, played major roles in the drafting and editing of the farewell speech of January 1961.
The actual drafter of the speech, Ralph E. Williams, relied on guidance from Professor Moos. Milton Eisenhower explained that one of the drafts of the speech referred to the “military-industrial-Congressional complex” and said that the president himself inserted the reference to the role of the Congress, an element that did not appear in the delivery of the farewell address.
When the president’s brother asked about the dropped reference to Congress, the president replied: “It was more than enough to take on the military and private industry. I couldn’t take on the Congress as well.”
And see this:
Indeed, Congress members – part of the fatcat club which makes money hand over fist from war – are heavily invested in the war industry, and routinely trade on inside information … perhaps even including planned military actions.
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Our job is to ensure the Bankers return what they stole.
All human associations die. Nature is perpetual change. Government is the committee to preserve the past's power distribution.
Compassion to preserve the past's organizations to the detriment of the future is stupidity.
Yes, I've been telling folks for years that TPTB purposely ignored Ike's full speech and his warning the American sheeple against the encroaching power of the "military, industrial, congressional complex". Congress has let the military perform a coup d'etat, about which the majority of shitizens know nothing. Nor, apparently, do the shitizens care. WAKE THE FUCK UP, SHEEPLE! or not.
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The Imperial Powers made sure that Amerika would remain their ever faithful lapdog after the Civil War.
Amerika cannot fight an (internal) enemy of which Amerikans are largely unaware. Why else would Amerika fight every senseless war of the Imperial Powers over the last 150 years? Why else would every Amerikan leader (especially) since that arrogant f*ck Woodrow Wilson, another academic in chief, create a false-flag to enter a war on behalf of the Imperial Powers?
Amerika is so powned since 1900 that it is largely unaware of its Bitch status. CIA is MI6-Amerika. Why else would GW Sr. receive knighthood after his three-terms in office and faithful service in wacking JFK?
Ike failed to mention the real problem, the fatal flaw in the US constitution. That flaw? Term limits on public office!
Weren't lawyers originally banned from sitting in congress?
Ike failed to mention the real problem, the fatal flaw in the US constitution. That flaw? Term limits on public office!
I agree but go one step further. There are two fatal flaws in the constution - #1 being term limits and #2, and essentially more important than #1, is there should have been a ban on all private contributions to political office holders or those running for office (i.e. all elections should be publically funded through the government).
Now HERE is exactly why I, and any rational American, don't give a rat's ass what Eisenhower said when that dood excelled at covering his ass:
Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton were the officers who led the charge in the slaughter of over 100 American women, children and men at the Bonus Marchers Village.
During the Eisenhower Administration, the CIA was dispatched in a failed attempt to overthrow the nonaligned government of Indonesia's Sukarno, and thousands of Indonesians were killed.
During the Eisenhower Administration, the CIA was dispatched to overthrow the government of the democratically elected president or prime minister of Iran, and many died there.
During the Eisenhower Administration, the CIA was dispatched to overthrow the democratically elected government of Guatemala's President Arbenz, and many died (as always, the first to be murdered were the labor organizers). At that time the major investor in United Fruit was Floyd Odlum, who was also the major financial backer of Eisenhower's presidency.
During the Eisenhower Administration, an invasion of Cuba was planned, later to be known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
During the Eisenhower Administration, Nelson Rockefeller enjoyed full rein in the government, compromising the structure of the Ex-Im Bank to allow for easy manipulation and corruption, organizing or reorganizing the Department of Defense, his special assistant during this was (General) Edward Lansdale, who would be photographed on November of 1963 in Dallas on the morning of the murder of President Kennedy.
So fuck Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton, who should have been court martialed long before WWII.
Instead of wasting valuable time reviewing Eisenhower's "cover my ass" speech, these vids would be much, much more educational:
Landowners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPRheJMUnP8&feature=player_embedded
History of the Federal Reserve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJeemTQ7Vk&feature=player_embedded
Michael Hudson interview on book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF17m93Bvfk&authuser=0
Trans-Pacific Partnership
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBkOImW9gi4&list=PLo1C1b9Y18ZlAUEtVxYbuyrgu90qlEDtX&feature=player_embedded
Big Pharma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AwK0WTAR3Ho
Twin Towers and Physics 101
Tower collapse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3keULhBlQc
9/11 follow the money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3xgjxJwedA
Student Debt Reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xFY-PgPA-Uk
Sgt. Doom ,
Dang, now I will be up half the night checking out your links. Oh, thanks for the info.
+1
filthy crypto jew same as truman both belong to the greatest trash in human history shame on this rats
Here's the speech.
Worth watching the whole thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWiIYW_fBfY
And here's the text of the speech:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html
I am glad to see some of you intelligence guys coming out and talking about this. It takes some stones and honor to uphold your oaths in these kinds of cycles and attempt reform. It is called showing leadership and something I can get behind.
Times have changed, what may have worked no longer does especially considering the fast pace of our evolution these days. In the end the real issue is lobbying and as Ike understood was and was going to be a really big problem. It is for all societies.
Of course big business will always attempt to capture the government and of course they will eventually succeed until the host governnent dies. However, we can act a brakes into the decent of hell and participate in improving the brakes as we rebuild.
Uncle Sam is dead, its enemies (which in the end are all robbers) are the bankers that captured all governments through a very clever model and the polity willingly sold out. The communists indeed finally sold the rope to hang ourselves with. I hope we are relearning these lessons quickly as there is a lot to do. Bracing ourselves and hedging comes first, encouraging those with an ear to do the same.
"...makes money hand over fist from war"
Its not the making of money over war that is so egregious its the fact that each and everyone of us is inspired/required to "make money hand over fist” or suffer the consequences that sucks.
Everyone in the US is 100% reliant on the MIC and if you don’t understand that you are CLUELESS!
For US war IS the answer.
I wish that Our Dear Leaders had better ideas...and ones they don't have to steal...
It isn't actually a specific 'complex'.
It's just that powerful people end up getting into positions of power - in the military, in business and in politics. And in academia, the civil service, ....
...and a few drug addicts, and other shamed, and blackmailables...
"The president's body was buried as a General of the Army. The family used an $80 standard soldier's casket, and dressed Eisenhower's body in his famous short green jacket. His only medals worn were: the Army Distinguished Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, and the Legion of Merit. " (Wikipedia)
He respected himself more as a soldier, rather than be tainted for eternity as having been a president.
I miss Ike. Hell, I miss Truman, too.
Treason never prospers, Because if it Prospers Non Dare Call it Treason.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Sir John Harrington - 1561-1612. Inventor of the flush toilet.
Get your quotes right!
I think it was some Roman a little earlier,say 1800 years before, but believe what you want.
Don't be so anal retentive.
Don't be so plagiaristic.
Fuck you. The quote is well known so I wasn't plagarizing anyone.
Well, plagarizing or not, the quote is brilliant so thank you both, snodgrass and dodgy geezer. It was quite illuminating.
He's been dead quite a while so I don't think there's any royalties to worry about.
The web should not be a place designed for the lowest common denominator. i don't wanna' hafta' spell things wrong just so I can find 'em. Kudos Geezer.
You know what is really sad about this is that instead of collaring the MIC, we are lionizing it by emulation. Now, we have the Justice Industrial Complex (JIC), the Education Industrial Complex (EIC), the Healthcare Indiustrial Complex (HIC), and the Factory Food Induatrial Complex (FFIC).
DOH! It just gets bigger and bigger,,,
;-D
MessyMerry,
Excellent points all. To those add the Energy Industrial Complex and the Racial Industrial Complex.
ALL murderously corrupt.
You forget the most important...the Bankster Industrial Complex!
Bankster Industrial SCAM = BIS = Bank of international Settlements . How come no Nation declares war on these fuckers?
Yeah, I was giong to add that as an edit and got distracted by a beautiful young woman...
Priorities, you know,,,
;-D