Wow this must have hurt!:-)
Here's the deal:
On February 20, 2000 Bill Gates (yes, that Bill Gates) used his Cascade Investment LLC to buy 8% of Newport News Shipbuilding, a group that makes surface ships for the navy.
This explains why MSNBC is so "war" friendly. I guess Bill is not the hippy he once was - another visionary succums to war profits

last week, Bob Brewin, writing for FCW.com under the title Navy opts for thin-client systems on-board ships reported:
"Unfortunately, there's a lot more to this story, some of it very serious. Fundamentally the Newport News purchase seems to have been part of a backroom deal done to clean up some of the consequences of another dirty deal entirely: done during the spring of 1997 to get Windows NT into the Navy"

Killer Bill Volumn 3?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=490

Why do harvard guys like war? Answer - money!