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Selatius

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6. As long as a war continues, the defense contractors have more jobs to give the top brass.

Reply to onethatcares (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 16, 2012, 03:22 AM

Feb 2012

War is extremely profitable if you're the one making the weapons. That, and the pride and arrogance of the senior military leadership is on the line. None of them want to be handed a political defeat on the scale of Viet Nam while they're in the Pentagon, and they probably don't want that defeat to come at the hands of primitive, backward, unsophisticated, and superstitious mountain tribesmen carrying AK-47s and RPG-7s.

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Army Whistleblower Lt. Col. Daniel Davis Says Pentagon Deceiving Public on Afghan War [View all] crunch60 Feb 2012 OP

I heard this interview today and onethatcares Feb 2012 #1

Yes, and the high-paying jobs they thought they were headed to in the military-industrial Sanity Claws Feb 2012 #2

As long as a war continues, the defense contractors have more jobs to give the top brass. Selatius Feb 2012 #6

You start off great... cbrer Feb 2012 #9

Oh, I'm commenting more on their religious beliefs and beliefs on women's rights, etc. Selatius Feb 2012 #10

I hope Lt. Col. Davis can weather whatever retribution eyewall Feb 2012 #3

No kidding. BlueIris Feb 2012 #22

Such deceit at this level would not be possible without authorization from the administration. razorman Feb 2012 #4

yes agree lunasun Feb 2012 #12

Lt. Col. Davis will now be known as AnnieBW Feb 2012 #5

This is a "leak" (it's not) of an unclassified report. boppers Feb 2012 #7

When does the Pentagon ever... Mr_Jefferson_24 Feb 2012 #8

I still blame violent video games -he is the right age lunasun Feb 2012 #13

I do think video games... Mr_Jefferson_24 Feb 2012 #18

Great piece, worth watching. nt Poll_Blind Feb 2012 #11

Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires... Gringostan Feb 2012 #14

Yup. Foreign empires have ruled over Aghanistan for only 2200 of the last 2300 years. ieoeja Feb 2012 #16

You've completely missed my point Gringostan Feb 2012 #20

You fail to understand the difference ... Nihil Feb 2012 #21

K&R midnight Feb 2012 #15

Kick - can we leave now? And have a real 911 investigation? grahamhgreen Feb 2012 #17

I applaud Davis for his courage lovuian Feb 2012 #19

"(I)nsurgents control virtually all parts of Afghanistan beyond eyeshot of a U.S. base." BlueIris Feb 2012 #23