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Comments (3)
This article is not unrelated to the one by Kristine Mani linked today under the headline Latin America's Hidden War in Iraq.
First, the US has no business in the domestic affairs of other countries. Secondly, the Bush regime is propounding things there it does want to see here. We have already had military intervention in domestic police matters in New Orleans and we know what that looks like.
Posted by Nancy Van Ness | October 3, 2007 2:03 PM
and...as a reminder and update:
The American market share of the global arms trade is 42%
Posted by Louise | October 4, 2007 11:07 AM
Thank you, Louise, for that reminder. I was also struck by Naomi Klein's remark to John Cusack, which he reported on Huffingtonpost. Klein points out that two months after 9/11 Richard Perle launched a company called Trireme Partners that exists to invest in homeland security and defense sectors. Boeing was his first investor. All the while, Perle, who headed the US Defense Policy Board, was making the case for war, specifically the invasion of Iraq. Klein then asks:
"Why is it that we refer to Richard Perle merely as an ideologue -- rather than, say, as an arms dealer with an impressive vocabulary?"
Posted by Nancy Van Ness | October 5, 2007 5:58 AM