The following is the manuscript of a speech I will give around 2:00 pm this afternoon during a war protest at Oklahoma City University commemorating the 5th ‘anniversary’ of the US occupation of Iraq.
Five years ago, riding the emotions of 9/11, ‘we the people’ collectively gave our government the benefit of a doubt. We [...]
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Thanks to this site, I’ve known for a while what the estimated costs for current American wars are; I could even narrow the parameters to my local community. But it looks like it might be even worse. According to this article, the costs for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may double over [...]
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The following will be the prologue to my senior paper.
Prologue
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
-President Dwight D.Eisenhower in his
farewell address given January 17 1961.
I still remember [...]
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