The UK arms trade

World War II pulled the USA out of the Great Depression. War is the easy way to boost an economy. Bush and Blair know this. So, selling lots of armaments, and having a long war on terror, could be the Bush-Blair plan for the next few years. Let's compare the past with the present. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 1920's GREED In the 1920's, in the USA, taxes and regulation were slashed, monopolies were allowed to form, and the rich became disgustingly rich. By 1929 there was a glut of goods on the market. BANKRUPTCY Banks were failing. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ...  Read the complete review

Not only are we selling arms to India and Pakistan, the government sent a memento our boss to keep selling as theres no embargo, and business should hot up. In a word, we love war. Don?t threat, their not going to throw nukes at each other with the monsoon season and World Cup coming. Pakistan are Americas new allies and are taking advantage of that by furtively initiating terror campaigns over the border in Kashmir. India are quite happy if that region stays the way it is as theres more Muslims in India than Pakistan and Kashmir put together. It was the British Commonwealth that cut India into three in 1947 to cause this fifty five-year on going friction. ...  Read the complete review

As the Enron scandal sweeps Americas ubiquitous white wall corridors of influence. Polished pristine waxed clean Pentagon floors echo to powerful footsteps as yet another third world poverty-stricken country is lined to be flattened to bury domestic bad news. One executive who knew too much has taken his life or someone has taken it for him. This thing goes right to the top and oil and arms sales are again at the heart of it. The energy company has significant links to President Bush and funding for his party along with links to Bush’s own interests. A war in Somalia that is surely just around the corner will take away significant critiscm of the ...  Read the complete review

Blair came in to power talking of ethical foreign policies and more Caution on selling weapon to unstable third world countries. By September 11th he and his foreign secretaries had well and truly buried that idealism by arming the nasty Philippine government and any one else as admirably bad. Sierra Leone showed that we were more interested in diamonds getting to the rich than the food getting to the poor in the Dark Continent. So after the epoch events in New York Blair saw his chance to correct these inconstancies and stood up for the free world with a stirring speech at the labor conference. We can save the world and be really righteous he ranted. ...  Read the complete review

I am going to write under the assumption that mankind has basically had some war going on constantly since humanity began. Truthfully the historians can only find 45 years out of the past 3000 when there was not a major conflict being waged. One of my instructors at OCS told us that, and he said his job was to train us to be the best we could be in preparation of inevitable conflicts. So if it is going to happen anyways we might as well get rich off of it. The United States now sells more than half of all weapons internationally with Britain second and the Russian Federation third. These exports result in high paying jobs in high tech firms. People need to ...  Read the complete review