will be jeopardized by the interest of big business in search of lucrative military contracts laura lister investigates. when it comes to the afghan war well over half of americans oppose it and after a year of record casualties and having ploughed in over three hundred sixty six billion dollars why is the us committed to staying the course there are all kinds of motives for that warry energy motives and profit motives and strategic motives and if you're wondering why some in the us just might not want to see the war and ever hear of three reasons thirty six billion twenty five billion twenty three point five billion those are roughly the dollar amounts the top three american defense companies were handed in government contracts in two thousand and eight a president once warned about this industry we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought all runs on by the military industrial complex it was fifty years ago that us president eisenhower said those now famous words let's look at though were u.s. defense spending has gone since then it skyrocketed from just

forerunner a videogame released two years ago became an instant success featuring a similar story line laura lister takes a look at the parallels between the fantasy and the reality a terrorist attack kills dozens of innocent people in creates chaos at a moscow airport fact. or fiction it's the scenario being played out here in this popular american video game sold worldwide call of duty modern warfare two dubbed no russian in this mission the player goes on a terrorist regime page hoping to massacre civilians in a fictitious moscow airport it may have seemed too gruesome and tragic to become true were it not for the very real events seen here at the dome of judge of o. airport more than thirty people have been killed more than one hundred eighty injured in what investigators believe was a terrorist attack sars a video game version a lot more people have been involved in this violent video game was released in november of two thousand and nine by the american company activision and in just a few months sales had surged asked one billion dollars now even for people that didn't download the game just