John Cusack was recently on Real Time with Bill Maher, promoting his new movie “War Inc.”

He had this to say about the state of the military industrial complex:

“the very core things that make up our government like wars or interrogation or border patrol, jailing, any of those types of things that you would think would be sacred things that would happen with the state are now being turned into for-profit enterprises. And if you want all these things to be, if you want corporate ethics to be our national interest, then you have the situation we’re in now. But right now, when you think that we’ve out sourced everything to interrogation, which means torture is a cost-plus enterprise, I think you can see a complete spiritual bankruptcy to this whole neo-con movement. It’s a nightmare beyond anything you can really imagine.”

There’s video at the bottom. It’s really great stuff. Too bad it probably means John Cusack’s name will be on a government list of “potential threats” for the rest of his life now.

Props to Raw Story for bringing this one to my attention.