In my experience, they only get bids from companies that can do the job and are qualified. Not just any company is allowed to submit a bid for any project. The bids are on a request basis. So then they choose the lowest bid from that select group.

What bothers me is that nobody here seems to believe that all the money being spent on war and the large profits being made contribute to war-time decisions. I'm not saying that this is the only reason that politicians decide to go to war, but it does contribute to the decision making process.

I'm sure everyone here knows about Eisenhower's farewell address and his warning about the "Military Industrial Complex". He was not an idiot. His warning was based on his own experiences and its obvious that he himself was presured and perhaps influenced by this lobby or else he would not have given his warning.

If there was suddenly peace throughout the world, these military contracters would lose billions of dollars, and they are not about to let that happen.

I guess my view of the world is vastly different than most on this board. When I see the struggle of "us against them", I don't see "us" as Americans, and "them" as the "communists" or "terrorists". I see "us" as the good common people of the world, and "them" as the powerful elite who control the world at the expense of the common people.

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