On (19 Feb 03) Rob McCart wrote to George Pope...
 RM> GP~Active war makes these munitions industries in excess of 100
 RM> billion a
 RM>   ~week!  (And the White House KNOWS (after JFK and the complete lack
 RM> of
 RM>   ~investigation/accountability/reckoning) that to attempt to avoid
 RM> war
 RM>   ~when the $$ boys demand it, has downright fatal(and
 RM>   ~unpreventable) consequences! :(
 RM>
 RM> Now wait.. a few corporate giants getting rich doesn't do the
 RM> USA any good at all, not when the cost burden is taken on entirely
 RM> by the taxpayers. This isn't like selling arms outside of the
 RM> country at a profit. This is the military spending money buying arms
 RM> and then spending money on soldiers and equipment to 'distribute'
 RM> those arms and then spending money to bribe and bebuild the areas
 RM> that you've just turned into a smoking pit afterwards.
 RM>
 RM> I'll grant you that the arms makers would love to throw a war and
 RM> would
 RM> make lots of money but I don't think there's enough money in it to
 RM> bribe
 RM> enough people to get it through senate past all the Rest of the states
 RM> that Don't have huge arms manufacturers..

Well, YOU explain how they got away with offing the PRESIDENT of the
USA, then! :P

(and, yes, the White House WAS directly involved in the assassination,
why else did the call to have the Dallas National Guard "stand down"
originate there?) :P

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