It is all done for money of course, and not the "official" reasons.
War is big business -- just ask Halliburton.  War is, in fact, the biggest business on earth.

"War is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many.
Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
         -Major General Smedley Butler

When you couple the interests of American Oil Monopolies who seek to control the Oil reserves of foreign nations with the War-Industry, it is then no wonder that The United States no longer is a leading manufacturer in cars, electronics, clothes, or other commerical products anymore.  We're also far down the list in education, health care, freedom-of-speech (yes), care for the environment, public transportation, and the quality of our cities.

So, just what is the United States still #1 at?

• The Manufacture of Military Systems, Weapons, and Hardware.
  
• The Manufacture of Nuclear Weapons and Missiles.
  
• The Manufacture of Chemical and Biological Weapons.
  
• The experimentation and actual use of these systems.
• The Sale and International Distribution to Foreign Countries of all of the above.

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
            -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

U.S. corporations now globalize weaponry and violence for profit, and the U.S. has become the primary font of arms proliferation in the world. Subsidized by American taxpayers, U.S. corporations--Lockheed-Martin, General Electric, General Dynamics, Mcdonnell Douglas, Boeing, Hughes Aircraft, to name a few--sell lethal weapons to more than 40 countries. Assault helicopters, tanks, 50-caliber machine guns, hellfire anti-armor missiles, land-mine dispensing pods, Stinger missiles, fighter jets, rifles, guns--mechanized violence has become the main currency of America.

The Warfare Inc. behemoth that runs our Country (into the ground), of course, cares a lot about who is Elected President and who is not.

In the 2004 presidential race, defense company workers, almost all of them upper-level employees, gave most heavily to George W. Bush (of Bush-family Oil-CIA-Banking-Cartel geneology), more than twice the amount that they gave to John Kerry.

This year the defense industry this year abandoned its decade-long commitment to the Republican Party, funneling the lion share of its contributions to Democratic presidential candidates, especially to Hillary Clinton who far out-paced all her competitors.  Employees of the top five arms makers - Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon and General Dynamics have been financing their star advocate, Hillary Clinton, even more so than the entire GOP field. Her closest competitor for defense industry money is former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R.), who raised $32,000. Senator Clinton took in almost double that at $56,200. No other Democrat came near Clinton's totals.

Former Senator John Edwards (D-N. Car.) took in just approximately 1/5th the amount that Hillary Clinton did at $12,200, and Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) took in even less at $10,000. Dennis Kucinich got $0 dollars from the War Industry.

Hillary Clinton's major industry benefactors - donors who gave the $4,600 maximum allowed by law -- include Roger A. Crone, Boeing's president of Network and Space Systems; Stanley Roth, Boeing's Vice President for Asia, International Relations, $4,600; Anne Sullivan, a Raytheon attorney; William Lynn, Raytheon's Senior Vice President for Government Relations; and Michele Kang, Northrop Grumman Vice President.

The fact is inescapable, that Hillary Clinton is The War Industry's choice for President.
She replaces George Bush as their new puppet.

This should be no surprise to anyone who has ever actually taken a look at Hillary Clinton's horrible U.S. Senate record.

Her record is indefensible. As a stalking horse for the NeoCon agenda, she votes with Joe Lieberman on virtually every Defense or Foreign Policy measure held before Congress. She happily parrots the same false and reckless War Mongering talking-points (whether about Iraq or about the Iran Republican Guard) that are manufactured and hyped by the Bush White House, or General Patraeus or, Lieberman, or Cheney's henchmen, or other War-Hawks in the Congress, without first doing her homework, or having the moral compass to stand up and reject the whole dishonest drumbeat of endless fear and War. The War Industry knows that Clinton is the safe Democratic choice here for them because she won't rock the boat. You can be sure that the U.S. Oil Companies will be allowed to continue to control the Iraq Oil, and that the U.S. Military Bases will stay put. Hence, regardless of whatever Clinton says right now, U.S. Troops will, for those reasons, remain in Iraq and the occupation, in effect, will continue. This of course is music to Dick Cheney's ears because the last thing that these people want is a new President that will try and rain on their corrupt War-Profiteering parade.

Details from Thomas Edsall's article at The Huffington Post, can be read
at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/17 /defense-industry-embraces_n_68927.html

War-Industry lapdogs.

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