Reply With QuoteYeah, I'm sure he advocated pacifism.Originally Posted by Roaming East
Dude was about Golf anyway...
Yeah, I'm sure he advocated pacifism.
It was bush or Jesus, right?
He advocated common sense and balance and warned us about what we're facing today; a MIC that is out of control.Yeah, I'm sure he advocated pacifism.
Nice strawman. No, Ike had probably the most active interventionist policies since any president. This IS the guy who had the CIA overthrow an elected leader of state after all. No, Ike was about ensuring Defense money was spent for Defense needs, not to enrich lobbyist and industrialist and CERTAINLY not to maintain an illusion of defense at the expense of your populations well being, you know. Like the Soviets did.Yeah, I'm sure he advocated pacifism.
Not quite right:
You can find the complete speech here: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Chance_for_PeaceEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953.
Then there was that pinko that had the ballz to say ",War is a racket."
The Pinko was upset he didnt get a job promotion
Quite possibly. It doesn't mean he was wrong.
you need a balance, right now, its skewed toward the defense industries, while sapping resources to improve the homefront
And yet he had some of the largest defense projects in our history.
People forget the Highway act wasn’t so you could drive down 95, but 2nd Armored division could.
Nuclear tipped anti aircraft missiles
New H-Bomb to replace the A-Bomb
ICBM Program starts again 1954
Anti Satellite programs
NORAD
U-2
3155 Genie air-to-air rockets (with two kiloton nuclear warheads) armed scores of Air Force interceptor aircraft at 31 bases in 20 states starting in 1957
1900 Falcon guided air-to-air missiles (with a half kiloton warhead) which later also equipped some of these and other airplanes
2500 Army Nike-Hercules surface-to-air missiles (carrying two or 22 kiloton warheads) that the Army positioned at 123 launch sites around 26 cities and 10 Air Force bases in 25 states
409 Air Force BOMARC long range surface-to-air missiles (each with six and one-half kiloton warheads) located at eight launch sites in seven eastern and northeastern states (in addition to two locations in Canada)
M48 and M60 Tanks
M28/M29 Davey Crockett Nuclear recoilless rifle
MGR Honest John Tactical Surface to Surface missile
M14 Rifle
M79 Grenade Launcher
M60 Machinegun
M67 Recoilless rifle
M40 Recoilless Rifle
M114 Scout Vehicle
M113 APC
M108 SPH
M109 SPH
M110 SPH
Sure it does. He was infuriated he was passed over for Commandant of the Marine Corps, then weeks later spews forth his diatribe. If he had ethics he wouldnt have waited until being passed over to spew his hatred.
Really? you can't buy a car, truck, boat because those industries are on a war footing making military goods?
The Airlines cant get aircraft because of Military priorities?
Your food Rationed along with your fuel, shoes, clothing, because the MIC has priority?
On what planet?
I like Ike.
By the way want to cut defense spending start with Panetta. Every weekend it costs from the DOD budget to fly him back to california. 27 times and 800k total so far. How about get an apartment mr secretary before cutting vets health benefits?
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