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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:40 PM
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Now with Bill Moyers
Is anyone watching this...this is incredible...
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:45 PM
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1. Please give details...
I dumped the tv, but miss Moyers (and The Daily Show). Any snippets would be appreciated!
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:50 PM
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2. Talking about...
the 400billion dollar budget and how the Pentagon wants free reign on how to spend it...
Talking about how the pentagon is using the war on terrorism to increase in defense spending and how they don't want to be held accountable for the way they spend it...

I'll see if I can find some transcripts...
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Wonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:51 PM
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3. Check this other thread
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:53 PM
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4. Thanks Wonk...
:beer:
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9215 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:55 PM
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5. We are fucked!!!
I am watching and listening. Spinney, the Pentagon analyst lays out how utterly rotten the "Military Industrial Congressional Complex". A massive money machine moving money from the citizen to the MIC coffers with the Congress, Dems and Repugs, enabling the system. There is no accountability of costs or systems functioning or even if the sytesm has a military benefit. Guns that don't work, ballistic missile sytems that are not tested because the manufacturer doesnt' think they will pass the test and this may result in stopping the program!!
A complete breakdown in accountability and we are going to pay. If we don't do something about it it will destroy this country.

Purportedly a bunch of people with box cutters have beat a multi-trillion dollar MIC and everybody sits around intriqued with "Survivor" or "Seinfeld".
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:56 PM
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6. It Was Facinating
OMG, that guy was amazing...I hope someone can post the MP3's on DU, because I missed the first 20 minutes -

No one in government can be trusted, it's not just Jr. and his cronies, it's everybody. Bombs, and defense systems that probably are duds and won't do a hill of beans to prevent the next terrorist from boarding an airplane.

When it was reported yesterday that defense spending was keeping this economy afloat - now I understand just how it all works across this country.
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Wonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:58 PM
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7. Already did, in the other thread. Could a mod please lock this one?
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:02 AM
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10. I Found - Wonk (my hero)
you're the one who's always posting the important MP3's, huh?

Domo
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:59 PM
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8. I smell...
the carlyle group...

I also got this website from the show...just goes to show how much we are spending...

http://www.costofwar.com/

in case you are curious...!

This is rediculous...this just reeks of defense contractors milking the tax payers in this country to fatten their pockets...it's really disturbing...!
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MattNC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:00 AM
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9. out of control
I'm probably a greater supporter of defense spending than most people here, but the Pentagon's budget has got to be reeled in.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 05:39 AM
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11. dupe
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