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• 1. Robert W Barker  |  August 14th, 2007 at 5:26 pm

  The Weapons of Profit
  Or how we kill our own in Iraq
  by Robert W. Barker • Eureka CA USA • August 13, 2007
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  A loud cry went up from the war hawks when the US government found a few weapons recently; that were possibly Iranian, via Russia. The call for bombing or punishing Iran for such infarctions is the latest Neo Con maneuver to keep us in a constant state of war. For they know full well the real providers of the weapons to Iraqi insurgents is the USA not al quada nor Iran.

  A recent Government accountability Office revealed that the Pentagon cannot account for as many as 30% of all weapons given to Iraqi forces between 2004 and 2007.

  That’s three years and hundreds of thousands of weapons.

  Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post reported recently that the Pentagon told him it was 190,000 AK-47’s and automatic pistols that were missing. And that does not include the 14000 reported missing in 2004, a separate incident that went unnoticed on American Media.

  Some sources such as Amnesty International claim that an additional US sanctioned arms transfer from Bosnia to Iraq may be missing as well, including as many another hundred thousand guns for sale on the streets of Iraq.

  Many of us recall in 2004 when a huge cache of explosives went missing supposedly under the guard of US troops.

  Not a few, nearly 380 Tons of deadly conventional explosives.

  That much explosive power produces a lot of road side bombs, and it is no doubt these stolen explosives, provided the fire power to kill most American and civilian victims. Once again Americans are shown a scenario where the enemy is given ample chance to arm against our own troops with explosives that we should have been watching.

  Incompetence goes hand in hand with greed and arrogance, our own people are killed with our weapons and explosives. The stolen explosives were mainly HMX and RDX two powerful agents with enough force in small amounts to; maim kill or destroy property.

  These were the same explosive agents used to bring down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbi Scotland used less then one pound of this agent, and we gave them 380 Tons.

  That’s two thousand pounds times 380 = 760,000 lb.. That’s a lot of fire power turned lose on our troops and the allies as well as the Iraq civilian population.

  One single pound roadside bomb a day for 759.63 years, that’s a lot of death and destruction. I hear the public saying: “Where in Hell do they get those explosives they use everyday?”

  Well, folks we gave them the power to kill, not Iran or al quada and a few profit and the rest of us pay.

  Halliburton, Brown and Root, Blackstone and Carlyle Group and other war contrators, construction giants and tech companies profit from this bellum and the missing weapons provide the source, {inadvertent or not} of the blood money.

  Lets face it, war is big business and if the enemy has no fire power it must be provided to have a proper battle after all. And this is not limited to Iraq, in Lebanon weapons and funds provided by the USA ended up in Sunni extremist and Hezbullah gorilla’s hands.

  This week we heard Afghani President Karzai announce the biggest opium crop in Afghanistan history, and the gun trade flourishes with the profits.

  Mr. Bush swears he is going after al quada and the Bush family friend Bin Laden in Afghanistan and West Pakistan. However we have heard that for six years and no concerted effort to get the best instrument in the Neo Con fear machine has transpired as of yet.

  Meanwhile Kosovo is the biggest heroine supplier in the world, and they use the money to buy weapons for the Western Supported “Freedom Fighters.” And the war goes on, and the Corporate War Machine marches on, and they profit as the American tax payers are left with the final bill.

  Funded by this weapon and drug trade is also the corporate — run Camp Bondsteel another Guantanamo setting very near the trans. Balkan Pipeline, conveniently placed for security.

  War and gun profits are being used to stir up war and increase drug production as well as finance secret prisons across the globe.

  We are seeing American weapons and money being handed to the very people the Neo Cons in D.C. claimed were our enemies. Missing abandoned or traded for drugs the weapons industry is full force involved in our own demise.

  As the debt grows to China and the World Bank continues to rise from unjust war as statistics of death increase and the truth on who is really killing our children comes out, perhaps then we will see that the real enemy often wears Armani Suits far less then turbans.

  RWB

• 2. eriemiller  |  August 27th, 2007 at 3:20 am

  i scanned the lead paragraph of your essay about the social effects of peak oil. it used the word “interview”, or its derivatives, six times.

  is it about the subject or you?

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