1/ At the onset of WW2 the United States did not even have a standing military...and along with others we still won the war. It was only at the end of WW2 that the “defense industry” was created....

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2/ ...leading President Eisenhower (who was also the Supreme Allied commander in WW2) to warn us about the “military industrial complex.”npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244…

Ike's Warning Of Military Expansion, 50 Years Later

On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower gave the nation a dire warning about what he described as a threat to democratic government. He called it the military-industrial complex, a formidable...

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3/ The myth has been created that a huge defense industry is necessary for our security. Yet it is nothing but that: a myth. The gargantuan size of our military expenditure does not represent increased safety for us or for others; in many ways it represents more danger.
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Please tell us your meaning of the phrase "standing army". Do you have a new WOKE definition of "standing army"? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regula….
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Nice of you to mention the others🙄 who were fighting the war for nearly 2 years before Pearl Harbor.
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That was the entire country working together to defeat a common enemy. What a pitiful shame that is not the case today when dealing with the Covid-war!
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How can you be this dumb?
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Incorrect. Congress created the U.S. Military Sept 29, 1789 Geo Washington wrote to congress that he didn't need to argue for an issue on which the "honor, safety and well being of our Country so evidently and essentially depend"
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If the US didn’t have a standing military before WW2 what got comped at Pearl Harbor?
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Really? No standing military? That was just a big ol' yacht club docked at Pearl Harbor? The carriers that were (luckily) out on maneuvers that day were just aviation enthusiasts? Good to know.🙄
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Raytheon stock has gone ⬆️ since Biden-Harris’ inauguration. They are their top elected lobbyists. What’s so dangerous about Democrats is that the media, & toxic social norms will cover for them while they out “military-industrial complex” even Republicans (who are ALSO awful.)
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.. so .. Pearl Harbor was fake news? Jeez ..
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Did they bomb the Girl Scouts at Pear Harbor? Do you think WWII was one by a landslide?
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