08/15/08 – Joe Lauria – The Scott Horton Show

by | Aug 15, 2008 | Interviews

Joe Lauria, freelance reporter and co-author with former senator Mike Gravel of the new book A Political Odyssey, discusses his article ‘The Personification of the Military-Industrial Racket,’ McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann’s long, diabolical history as a chief neocon and war-salesman, McCain’s side-jobs as a foreign asset first for Iran and now Georgia and how luring Russia to retaliate against Georgia may have been instigated to strengthen McCain’s campaign and ratchet up arms sales.

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He's a wet dream for conspiracy theorists.
Oh, really?
Or, as I had the honor of interviewing Gore Vidal last year, and he said he wasn't a conspiracy theorist, he was a conspiracy analyst.
So, I mean, this guy, as I said in the piece in the Huffington Post, some people still deny that there is this nexus between the military industries and the Pentagon and foreign governments and the White House.

from front and center.
Since 2004, the Washington Post reported, 71 phone calls were made by Orient Strategies to McCain on behalf of Orient Strategies or Sherman's foreign clients, including Georgia, Taiwan, and other governments.
The guy is the nexus of the arms, oil, and foreign government.
He is the nexus of the military-industrial racket, as I call it.
He also worked in the Pentagon.
I don't know if I mentioned that.
He went to work for Rumsfeld

for all of us to have a special interest in this special interest that that terminology is too vague and it's so broad and crude that we can't even completely imagine every kind of question we can imagine.
But in a special interest that really means is to be able to use all of our species, view massive corporations that are capitalized to just the zillions of dollars that create levers of power so large that regular people can't even get their hands on them. so-called republics of the Soviet Union have been brought into NATO, they're pushing for Georgia and Ukraine, and this is where we get back to the military-industrial complex.
Because from any foreign policy wise man point of view, this is really stupid handing out war guarantees and pieces of candy.
But what it really is, and this is, I go back to Richard Cummings and his article Lockheed stock and two smoking barrels, what this is really all about is massive welfare checks for Lockheed stockholders.
The American taxpayer pays to give weapons, supposedly, you know, that Eastern European countries buy them, but we all know it's the American people who pay to deploy all these weapons in Eastern European countries.
And it's not for real strategic purpose.
I oil.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Russia may have benefited back at home too, but certainly I think Spain comes out looking stronger in this, even though it's all a big lie, because we don't know, we don't really know why they went in there, except we're only surmising that it had to be for these reasons.
Yeah, it really is like Bizarro World, like Justin Romano says, where every failure for the Republicans is some kind of benefit, even when September 11th happens on their watch, you know?
Very interesting.
It's business.

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