[Atlas Sneezed]

We are inching toward a soft fascism, in which states can send SWAT teams to break in your door to force you to take your child to the hospital, or in which holding an opinion that illegal immigration is wrong gets you branded as a racist. But to blame the military industrial complex?

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Um, militarized SWAT enforcers ARE part of the military industrial complex.

[Jokelahoma]

The SWAT teams are local. The "military industrial complex", as I've heard the term used (and have no reason to doubt Paul meant as well) refers to the US Military, the federal government, and the contractors who provide them with goods and services.

So no, in this instance, not the same thing. Sounded to my ears as though Paul was blaming corporations for getting us into Iraq.