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Entrenched, Embedded, and Here to Stay: The Pentagon's Expansion Will Be Bush's Lasting Legacy

Frida Berrigan writes for TomDispatch: "A full-fledged cottage industry is already focused on those who eagerly await the end of the Bush administration, offering calendars, magnets, and t-shirts for sale as well as counters and graphics to download onto blogs and websites. But when the countdown ends and George W. Bush vacates the Oval Office, he will leave a legacy to contend with. Certainly, he wills to his successor a world marred by war and battered by deprivation, but perhaps his most enduring legacy is now deeply embedded in Washington-area politics -- a Pentagon metastasized almost beyond recognition."

http://www.truthout.org/article/entrenched-embedded-and-here-stay-the-pentagons-expansion-will-be-bushs-lasting-legacy

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Entrenched, Embedded, and Here to Stay
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt335.html

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How the Pentagon shapes the world

05/31/08

Asia Times
by Frida Berrigan

The Pentagon is deeply entrenched in Washington and still aggressively expanding. It has developed a taste for unrivaled power and unequaled access to the treasure of this country...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JE31Df04.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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