http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Ujzbleb-E
Real Time with Bill Maher, 4/12/13 Transcript: "[...] The only thing Kim Jong Un ever conquered is a box of donuts. I'm not worried about him, but I do worry about America's Military-Industrial Complex using any excuse to ramp up the war machine again. Be careful Mr. Kim, I know threatening the U.S. is fun, but the reason it could bite you in the ass is: with Afghanistan winding down, America is now dangerously close to not having a war. And if you know our history, that is something we will not tolerate. Because when America doesn't have a war, it gets a little sad. It does. It gets a little introspective. We start contemplating stuff like poverty, schools, crumbling infrastructure, and that's no fucking fun. Just like we're the gun country, come on, we're the war people. We don't need a lot of encouragement. Have you ever met John McCain? Offering to go to war with the U.S. is like offering to go out for drinks with Lindsay Lohan. We're already in the car! Pre-emptive wars, just wars, wars of choice, wars of liberation, drug wars, wars we put on the credit card. Anything with war in the title, we are *so*there. We fought Mexico to steal Texas, Spain to steal the Phillipines, and the Indians because no one had invented Iraq yet. Just in my lifetime, we've invaded Vietnam, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Panama, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iraq again. That's when you know you're war mongers, when some countries are coming up twice! Now undoubtedly, some wars were necessary, the Revolutionary War, WWII, and despite it being controversial among libertarians, the Civil War. Like seeing that Lincoln movie, no one wanted to do it, but it had to be done. However, if you type wars involving the U.S. into Wikipedia, the list is 32 pages long! We've been at it for 216 of our 237 years! At some point, don't you have to look in the mirror and say, 'maybe its me?' Our defense budget uses up to 50 [56?] percent of our discretionary spending, and almost all of it since 9/11 has been on the layaway plan. By 2020 we'll have spent a trillion dollars on Afghanistan and Iraq, *just on the interest*. So I'm sorry North Korea, I know this sounds harsh, but you're just going to have to kill yourself. Because America needs to start defining peace as strength. You know who the role model for every president should be? Jimmy Carter. Because he is the one out of all of them who figured out how to sit in office for 4 years and never fire a shot. And every president's negative example should be Dick Cheney, who even shot his friends in the face. So Hillary Clinton, I hope you're listening to this. And I hope you remember that the reason you lost your primary battle in 2008 was because you voted for the Iraq war, and some guy named Obama was smart enough to be against it. And in your upcoming campaign, if there is one, who knows, anything could happen. I hope you know you don't have to run as an iron lady. That was your mistake last time. Because what good is being the first female president, if you still have to be a dick?" -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected]
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