Comment Re:$15,0000,000 (Score 4, Informative) 115
Your 'quote' is bogus. It is a heavily edited version of a speech Ike gave in public in 1953, when all of Eastern Europe was occupied by the USSR. You edited it to change the meaning entirely. This was a speech about how to keep the free world free, not about metals.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,858151,00.html
It was included in one edition of the Pentagon Papers but was never secret.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/ps7.htm
Here's the part you deliberately left out:
"But all India would be outflanked. Burma would certainly, in its weakened condition, be no defense. Now, India is surrounded on that side by the Communist empire. Iran on its left is in a weakened condition. I believe I read in the paper this morning that Mossadegh's move toward getting rid of his parliament has been supported and of course he was in that move supported by the Tudeh, which is the Communist Party of Iran. All of that weakening position around there is very ominous for the United States, because finally if we lost all that, how would the free world hold the rich empire of Indonesia? So you see, somewhere along the line, this must be blocked. It must be blocked now. That is what the French are doing."
You're one of those revisionists who claim the Cold War never happened, tight? Or it was all America's fault?
Communism killed around 100 million people in the 20th century. There's books about it, read one.
