The top representatives of the industrial war complex, both here in the US and in Israel, are coming forth in droves in an attempt to sell a war, any war, preferably one in Iran but Syria would do to get the ball rolling. The US military is at present facing massive spending cuts. We as citizens need to realize that when we speak of military spending, it is not necessarily our troops and equipment that are the first consideration, but rather the contractors who have built fortunes from the industry of death.
There are 7 billion people on this planet now and anyone who cannot see that human life is now being looked upon as a dispensable commodity by the power elite has their head in the sand. The propagandists in the mainstream are making every effort to sell more war, trying to point out good things that have come from it. General Martin Dempsey, in an exclusive interview on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS said, “If this Arab Spring has a positive outcome, I think we’ll see it first in Egypt.”
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