Not so faxing ethical now Straw (The UK arms trade)

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Product:	The UK arms trade
Date:	24/03/01 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: Selling like a bomb govenor

Disadvantages: 2,000 kids a year are blown apart by British mines around the world

Britain and America are the worlds biggest arms exporters and will do “anything” to keep that market leader tag to protect British muscle and jobs,one in ten people have jobs directly or indirectly related to the British arms trade.
Robin Cook came in with the new government promising to clean up our bad rep in the arms industry, yet three years on we are still selling nastiness to the nastiest of regimes. Including Argentina and the evil Philippine dictators who used the weapons to repress East Timor.

We still seem to have no morals when it comes to prospective buyers for our munitions and even John Major was resupplying the Argies not nine years after the previous leaders little run in.
Iraq’s war machine was built up by the west and Britain to fight of Iran in the 1980s and months before the Gulf conflict. Most of the parts for the weapons of mass destruction were made by European workers.

We even had the scenario where British built weapons were been fired on British troops. Imagine if a husband in the forces was hit by a bullet made by the wife in a British factory.

Its seems theres an unwritten rule where arms licenses are surreptitiously issued through government channels to arm illegal third world warring factions. It seems that the New Labor morals go out of the window in the pursuit of profit and world standing.

The most alarming factor here is something called the export credit guarantee, which allows governments to underwrite any export to a stable or an unstable regime using taxpayers money.
Amazingly, 60 percent of this slush fund is burnt up on defaulting arms deals in the countries that really cant afford these weapons, but it would be rather useful if war broke out there and the surrounding region to stimulate even more juicy arms sales……….It really does happen folks.

A classic example of the mis use of this public money is a large dam project in Turkey to
stop most of the water flowing into Iraq and Syria via the Euphrates river.If you want to start trouble in the Middle East to sells some arms,that’s the way to do it.

%90 of third world debt is caused by arms deals and those countries find themselves paying of the interest for ever more, usually in the form of the countries best minerals or resources. In some extreme cases, countries give back their international Aid money the moment they receive it.

Will anyone stand up and protect small children in war zones around the world who are still picking up British landmines that are meant to look like sweets or playthings.

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