The Nobel Prize for War 2009 goes to ...

[Carvill, John]

<< There's somebody, more likely a lot of somebodies,  every bit as  
corrupt, as impacted into the war profiteering business as Howard  
Hughes was, right now, working out these sorts of  
backroom deals... >>

Yeah, probably. Thing is, however you conceive of this 'They' that run the show - whether that be Bell Helicopter or the Bilderberg Group or the guys in the Exxon 'God Pod' - the way the world works these days really means nobody has to work at it. It just happens. Whether it's Reagan or Clinton or Bush or Obama (or Blair or Cameron), they guys are owned and bought and sold by Them. Nobody truly radical would get as far as even the Democratic nomination , never mind the Oval Office. 

"The parting on the left is now a parting on the right", etc...