| Bush is railing about the Iranians suppling weapons to Iraq, while the U.S. continues to be the largest supplier of arms in the world. |
| If it's an act of war for the Iranians to help the Iraqis against us, why is it not an act of war for Bush to peddle arms to every Tom, Dictator, and Harry to slaughter their enemies? After all, Bush is selling record numbers of attack helicopters, guided missiles, warplanes and small arms to firebrands and crackpots everywhere.
In 2005, the US peddled nearly half of all weapons sold to militaries in the developing world, "as major arms sales to the most unstable regions - many already engaged in conflict - grew to the highest level in eight years," the Boston Globe reported last November 13th. The US sold $8.1 billion worth of weapons - 46 percent of all - with Russia a poor second at 15 percent, and UK at 13 percent. Globe reporter Bryan Bender said a 2005 World Policy Institute study found the US "transferred weaponry to 18 of the 25 countries involved in an ongoing war." And 13 of those countries were defined as undemocratic in the State Department's own annual Human Rights Report, including top recipients Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan, Bender said. Please note the Big Winners tend to be sited in the Middle East or close by, where they can help achieve the cherished goal of successive US administrations from Eisenhower to the present of controlling the region's hydrocarbon resources. [T]he avuncular Ronald Reagan, OK'd the sale of poison gas to Saddam Hussein, who used it in his war of aggression on Iran to kill and maim thousands of troops. In October of last year, a UN panel voted to consider whether a new treaty might regulate conventional arms sales. Of 166 countries, the US was the only one to vote "No." Source: "Hardware King Bush Hits Iran for Peddling Arms" By Sherwood Ross - t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor - 22 February 2007 |
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