The Impact Of American Military-Industrial Complex On Iraq War

Interest groups is an essential element in the American political system and there is no national interest group politics can be comparable with the United Stated in the world. Interest groups is one of the important domestic factors that can not be ignored in domestic and foreign policy making in the United States Government. They are everywhere and have a major impact on the U.S governments'domestic and foreign policies. The outbreak of Iraq war has a profound impact on the international political environment of the new century. The war disrupted the pattern of international relations after the Cold war, making the international relations to be full of uncertainty.While military industrial complex, the special interest groups, in order to reap excess profits, via political donations, lobbying and other activities, strongly lobbying the U.S government, made an enhanced effect in promoting the Bush administration launched the war against Iraq. Even can say that, Iraq war is the war waged by the military industrial complex. The Iraq war launched by Bush administration is full of deceit and lies, Bush and the military complex deceived the world and all the American peopleThis article is divided into an introduction and three parts, with systematic introduction of the U.S military industrial complex acts on Iraq war. The introduction describes the significance of the topic of this article, research situation in domestic and foreign nations and the research method using in this articlePartâ… : in view of the military industrial complex belongs to interest groups, it need to have a clearer opinion about interest groups first in order to research on the military industrial complex .So for the first part, after absorbing the essence of scholars, and using the common knowledge of the accumulation of interest groups, there is a definition of interest groups; after the definition, it analysis of the impact of interest groups on American politics society. Then the article analyses the meaning, the history and future trends of the industrial complex in detail, systematically and in depth Partâ…¡: focuses on the composition of the military industrial complex and its internal mode of operation. Since the U.S. military industrial complex developed and increase step by step after World War II, Its components are constantly increasing. The composition of the military industrial complex now includes: military industrial enterprises, the executive branch of the military institutions, parliamentarians, and think tanks. The four parts of military industrial complex, was tied tightly by an invisible chain. Four of them are interrelated, interaction, constantly running for the common interest.The third part is the focus of this section, it introduces which ways and methods that the military industrial complex used to influence the Bush administration launched the Iraq war. Businessmen are to put profit-seeking first, so this part first describes the source of power of military industrial complex --- the war interests. Subsequently, it describes the way that the military industrial complex influences the U.S. government to launch the Iraq War. It main include: military industrial complex contributes to candidates in the presidential election and the election of members of both houses. There is a form in the text to show the funding that military industrial enterprise Contributes to candidates in the presidential elections and legislative elections, which makes the issue more intuitive and intelligible. Secondly, the lobbyist of Military industrial complex to lobby government officials, in order to make policies in their favor.Thirdly, the military complex use the media they controlled to win public support and press the government through hype and buildup in newspapers and advertising. Think tank is the brains of the United States, and the research results in Think tanks will be referred by the U.S. government in the formulation of domestic and foreign policy. A part of funding of think tanks comes from military industrial enterprises, in this case, military industrial enterprises control Think tanks, and Think tanks lost the neutral position. Revolving door system provides a channel for government officials, think tank researchers and corporate executives and other personnel to communication and interaction. Through this system, the role change among staff, to make the internal relations of Military industrial complex more close. The last part of Partâ…¢, on basis of the study summary above, it enumerates the specific interests that military industrial complex obtained from Iraq War, which close the topic: the motive that military industrial complex promote the U.S. war on Iraq is to reap excess profits...