If you wonder where the money has gone read this: Crisis could crimp defense spending, now at World War II levels All this over what in 2001 was a 5000 person militia (Al Qaeda). Guess what it isn’t WWII and does not deserve that kind of spending. Bush and his wartime delusions have cost us dearly. As McGovern said “Come home America”
Oh hell yeah! Tell it! Yell it! This M.I.C. bullshit has got to end!
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick — come home, America. Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world, and let us be joyful in that homecoming, for this “is your land, this land is my land — from California to New York island, from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters — this land was made for you and me.” So let us close on this note: May God grant each one of us the wisdom to cherish this good land and to meet the great challenge that beckons us home. And now is the time to meet that challenge. Good night, and Godspeed to you all
George McGovern WWII veteran and liberal icon. May the Gods bless him.
That was 1972 have we learned nothing in 36 years?
