"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953


He's a general. He knows what he's talking about. And to think that our initial offer of financial relief, to a region of the world that has lost over 100,000 people, is a piddling 35 million dollars. The state of West Virginia alone has endured the cost of $400,000,000 for the war in Iraq. We're among the top 5 poorest states in the nation, but go ahead -- suck us dry, take our National Guard, ignore our own natural disasters and crises, floods and slurry spills, we don't mind that you're bombing the shit out of a bunch of people who are pretty much just like us: impoverished, oppressed, poorly educated but spirited enough to fight back...

When will this country learn?