Quotes from this video

“Blowback. It’s a CIA term. Blowback does not mean simply the unintended consequences of foreign operations. It means the unintended consequences of foreign operations that were deliberately kept secret from the American public; so that when the retaliation comes, the American public is not able to put it into context. To put cause and effect together…that they come up with questions like ‘why do they hate us’?” -Chalmers Johnson CIA, 1967-1973

“I can remember in the Pacific when the word spread that the bombs had been dropped. 99.9% of us were delighted because we’d been convinced that if Japan was not hit by nuclear weapons, one million of us would be killed. Drop those bombs and they will surrender. Well, they were trying to surrender all that summer, but Truman wouldn’t listen because Truman wanted to drop the bombs. To show off. To frighten Stalin. To change the balance of power in the world. To declare war on communism. Perhaps we were starting a preemptive world war.”

“Defense budgets throughout the western world doubled or tripled in the 4 years between 1948 and 1952.”

“on at least 1 occasion Eisenhower was heard to say by those in the room “God help this country when somebody sits at this desk who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do”

“You know, sometimes people think of the defense budget as you’ve got to arm the troops, defend the nation, but for most people that are involved in it you realize this is business. Competition for contracts between very large corporations.”

“We did a report that took 2 and a half years, $600,000, 33 people including 10 investigative reporters on 6 continents looking at private private military companies and outsourcing war all over the world. And we noticed that in 1992 there was a contract of $9,000,000 given out to a company, Kellogg Brown and Root, to study the idea should the pentagon start using the private sector to do some of the support type functions like food service, latrine duty but even maybe some military things as well, and and the Secretary of Defense at the time was one Dick Cheney. So Cheney gives the contract out, Kellogg Brown and Root comes back and says ‘this is a terrific idea’. The next 10 years they get 700 or 800 contracts to do just that.This company brought in a rolodex guy; a former US Congressman; Defense Secretary; Chief of Staff to the President, to make sure that he could get doors open not only in Washington, but in capitals all over the world. And yes he becomes personally wealthy from that. No question about it. His net worth went from $1 million or less to 60 or 70 million dollars in the span of five years. So we’ve elected a government contractor as US Vice President.”

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