Beam me to Planet Gore !
Guess maybe some folks on the right are discovering that Ike may be a useful candy-assed liberal RINO after all.... soon maybe they'll rediscover Goldwater... :)
Timely post. Everyone should be aware of this part of Eisenhower’s speech.
I like Ike!
Saving, spreading. Thank you.
There is nothing “scientific-technological elite” about the AGW crowd. Both science and technology are being turned on its ear by these people. It is a political ideology being reinforced by pseudo science to achieve their goals.
Most of us know that President Eisenhower, in his farewell speech, warned of the danger of the “military-industrial complex”. Regardless of your particular stand on military spending, there is no doubt that he was substantially right about the enormous abuse of power and fraud in the defense industry.
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What Ike said has been twisted and used by anti-Military leftists and conspiracy mongers.
It was originally the military industrial CONGRESSIONAL complex and he wasn’t talking about secret military cabals and greedy corporations pushing for war to make new planes and ships with the evil military men willing to go to war at the drop of a hat.
The congressional part was taken out of the speech as not to offend members of both parties in Congress. It was about the role of congress in military spending too, now everyone uses this Ike quote to show the evil conspiracy between the military and industry.
There is audio and a transcript of Ike’s farewell speech athttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html
The speech is #18 on the top 100 speeches there at American Rhetoric= http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html