*news. this kinda stuff would get some loving in netrunnerts channel!

Adding video to channels (News) - requested by marinara.

Sun Tzu, hes like totally dead...how good of a general could he of been. /sarcasm

Great quote. Great message. Great lesson. Great Representative. Very poignant. "The Art of War" remains one of my very favorite philosophical texts, and I cannot think of a better quote for the situation we as a country were left in by the previous administration. Just replace "Feudal Lords" with "opposition party," and you have a very clear picture of what is actually going on in Washington.

Just think... what if Bush had given the order to overwhelm Tora Bora instead of just letting Bin Laden waltz out of his cave undisturbed? We had him cornered, but Bush let him walk free. There's no other way to spin the facts.

Yea yea yea, the problem is that without 'War' America has no economy. America is as addicted to war as it is to oil and cheap credit.

>> ^Fade:
Yea yea yea, the problem is that without 'War' America has no economy. America is as addicted to war as it is to oil and cheap credit.


I wouldn't put it like that but yeah, America needs war just like Rome did.

I think he made that speech on 12/1/09 instead of 1/12/09. Bush still had 8 days left in his presidency on January 12th.

We need a hell of a lot more people like him.

And Kucinich....

The populist guy that keeps getting elbowed out of the way by America's joke of a political system.

The Art of War.

I know you're being facetious, but I really must...set the record straight.

"America" is not addicted to war.

The war profiteers and the Pentagon pricks who kiss their ass, they are addicted to war.

Corruption, graft, apathy, greed, four worms that have rotted the wood of our Constitution.

Can I point out that all the arguments about getting out of Iraq and Afghanastan place an overwhealming emphasis on what is good or bad for the USA. I'd like to think it's just an oversight

>> ^brycewi19:
I think he made that speech on 12/1/09 instead of 1/12/09. Bush still had 8 days left in his presidency on January 12th.


Ahh.. that'd be my Australian date formatting. I'll make that easier to read.

Defense contractors get public money
Defense contractors buy political influence
Political influence puts more public money into Defense Contractors' hands
Defense contractors buy political influence
Political influence puts more public money into Defense Contractors' hands
Defense contractors buy political influence
Political influence puts more public money into Defense Contractors' hands
Defense contractors buy political influence
Political influence puts more public money into Defense Contractors' hands

And so on. That's why our military spending is outrageously inefficient and excessive, and we keep fighting wars that are irrelevant or counterproductive to our national security. No-bid contracts and cost-plus contracts should be explicitly forbidden by the constitution. The military should stop privatizing essential components of their operation and paying orders of magnitude more than it would cost to do in-house.

>> ^rougy:
"America" is not addicted to war.
The war profiteers and the Pentagon pricks who kiss their ass, they are addicted to war.

And these profiteers and Pentagon pricks run America. They are America. Not the people. It doesn't matter who you vote for; it doesn't change a goddamn thing.