Divide and rule (The UK arms trade)

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Product:	The UK arms trade
Date:	16/01/01 (23 review reads)
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Advantages: WE get stronger

Disadvantages: The poorer are culled

As I have worked in and around the arms industry I perhaps can feed you a few alarming facts about the seedy way things are run and countries manipulated.
Firstly Great Britain is in the top three world arms producers so war and death in foreign countries is a must if we are going to continue pushing for the top spot. Only America and France pose any real threat to taking away our business.
The company I did some work for actively sought business in Iraq with the Tory government of the times backing it in the 1980s to power up their arms to repel the evil Iranian empire as they perceived the Muslim fanatics.
Previously they had been arming Iran until the Americans lost faith with them and trained up Saddam through the C.I.A to eventually run Iraq to stabilize the oil price in the hectic 1980s.
Most arms producers including the UK were rubbing their hands at a Kuwaiti invasion as it meant re-supply for the whole region after the short and sweet conflict.
Oil was obviously the main concern and "Kuwaitis' liberation the least. Kuwait are a nasty dictatorship that should be hung up to dry.
Whether we like it or not, war is good for the UK arms trade and employment, as one in ten jobs are reliant in some way on the logistics of the armed forces.
Ministers who have consultancies in it make a lot of money out of world conflict and often the Foreign Office will actively encourage a poor African hot country to kick their next door across the borders butts to sell weapons to both sides.There are no morals in this business I can assure you.
Princess Diana's involvement in the banning of land mines really got some peoples' backs up especially as the region she went to was waiting on the Yanks to clear them up after an embarrassing two year wait since the contract was awarded, instead of giving it to a smaller country who could have started clearing them up much sooner stopping a thousand or so women and children getting the
ir limbs blown off.
The Philippines are a particular sticky situation as we like to sell them riot control gear and torture weapons in disguise rather than product for the infrastructure to their much battered people's by an evil totalitarian regime who suppress them every day of the week.
All these licenses were granted before and after the recent uprising which resulted in the evacuation of East Timor which we knew would happen and Blair, like all British Prime Ministers, continued issuing permits to allow the supply to the Philippine government of the day some nasty stuff.
Turkey are the current favored corrupt regime who during the Gulf War insisted on being part of the coalition but also bombing the Kurds from the same Turkish air base the NATO forces were protecting the Kurds from an alternate days. We have to keep the Turks onside as they are strategically very important oil-wise and like to buy as many silencers for their rifles to kill dissidents as the British arms trade can muster.
The arms inspectors when in Iraq were finding lots of banned items in Saddam's madhouse involved in the production of illegal nuclear and chemical production facilities. The inspectors were so thorough they had to be pulled and switched to one who did what the Americans wanted allowing Saddam to be further infuriated into a cage he may never escape inviting the Brits and Yanks to carrying on using his country and people as a bombing range for desert conditions.
We are physically murdering the Iraqi people to keep Saddam in charge to control the region.
In fact we quite like him running that country as the region is remaining stable, oil prices are controllable (Iraq supplies 28 percent of the west's oil)and we can practice dry bombing runs with new planes and tech on Arabic shepherds.
If you think our troops are infected with Uranium tipped shells, check out the poor farming peoples' babies born with no limbs and the 5000 children a
month who are dying prematurely every month whilst we continue to condemn the country, Saddam Hussein carries on living the life of Riley.
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Do not get involved in this business and get out like I did quick. The real truth is very alarming.

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