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Military-Industrial Complex: Bush Administration
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The Military Industrial Complex is not the Republican Party. In fact, it has a strong base of support inside the Democratic Party, expressed through its neocons. These neoconservatives, only some of whom are operating out of the Bush Administration, are now much older than they were in the 1960s when many of them emerged within the 'Scoop Jackson' wing of the party. That hawkish faction was named for late Washington Senator Henry Jackson known as "the senator from Boeing."
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For balance, other people Wolfowitz was close to within his president’s suite included Robin Cleveland, Kevin Kellums and Suzanne Rich Folsom, high-profile Republicans from the military-industrial complex and Bush regime. Cleveland had been entangled in a Boeing/Pentagon scandal resulting in Air Force Secretary Jim Roche losing his job, and in nepotism charges while a White House Office of Management and Budget official. Ironically, a January 2006 brouhaha emerged over Wolfowitz’s displacement of several Bank officials amid an anti-corruption drive led by his Republican cronies. Cleveland and Kellems were accused of receiving ‘excessive pay and open-ended contracts’ by Bank staff who filed a complaint to the Department of Institutional Integrity’s whistleblower hotline, and the Bank Staff Association complained that standard hiring procedures were ignored for the Kellems and Folsom appointments.|41|
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Hartung does not buy the argument that Bush is actually considering reducing military spending or that the president is really trying to reduce the influence of the military-industrial complex. Rather, Hartung sees the Rumsfeld review as serving a dual purpose in that it enables Bush to buy time before he increases military spending as well as allowing the president to place his own imprint on the armed forces.
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It is now more than forty years later, and this nation is still firmly in the financial grip of the Military-Industrial Complex! In fact, the intensity of its grip on the American citizen has been GREATLY magnified by the current Bush Administration!
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