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HOW THE PENTAGON SHAPES THE WORLD (A MUST READ)

Written by CORKSPHERE on

From: corksphere.blogspot.com

There are few more important stories we have ever posted on this blog than this one. It shows how the Bush administration manipulated the Pentagon into a massive complex with tentacles stretching not only into Iraq and Afghanistan, but around the world.

This is a MUST READ story for all who wonder what is going to happen after the next President takes office.

DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA
How the Pentagon shapes the world
By Frida Berrigan
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JE31Df04.html

A full-fledged cottage industry is already focused on those who eagerly await the end of the George W 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 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.

The Pentagon's massive bulk-up these past seven years will not be easily unbuilt, no matter who dons the presidential mantle on January 19, 2009. "The Pentagon" is now so much more than a five-sided building across the Potomac from Washington or even the seat of the Department of Defense. In many ways, it defies description or labeling.

Click on link to read this fascinating story http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JE31Df04.html

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