| Hillary Clinton just two days back said that the | | | | you, because that’s what capitalism is all |
| Iraq war can’t be won. I really hope you | | | | about… profits at all cost, even if it means |
| didn’t get carried away reading it and started | | | | increasing business at the cost of millions of |
| taking her seriously! She is still a first generation | | | | innocent lives... In fact, as per reports, topping the |
| dynastic hopeful with her husband having no war | | | | list of these death merchants are - Lockheed |
| experience. George Bush on the other hand is a | | | | Martin, followed by Boeing, Raytheon, Northorp |
| seasoned second generation warring cowboy!! And | | | | Grumman and General Dynamics. So as bodies |
| trust you me he knows the game better than | | | | continued falling in Iraq, their profitability surged, |
| you can imagine. Let me explain you how the | | | | and as building after building collapsed, their market |
| smoke ‘em out cowboy has actually won the | | | | cap swelled. It is amazing that even in this |
| war on Iraq... well at least as far as his schemes | | | | environment wherein there had been strong |
| were concerned!! | | | | signals of American economic slowdown, these |
| It has been exactly five years since the time | | | | corporations have been perpetually posting profits, |
| President George Bush went on a rampage on | | | | every quarter!! Reports also state that, between |
| Iraq, hunting for those world threatening WMDs!! | | | | 2003 and 2007, the profitability of corporations |
| In these five years the world is testimony to the | | | | like Boeing shot up by a mind numbing 467%! |
| fact that the US could neither find any WMDs, nor | | | | That’s not all, since the engagement with |
| could their intelligence establish any links between | | | | Iraq, shares of the American defence companies |
| the Late Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaida, but in | | | | have nearly ‘trebled’ and they have been |
| effect, on account of the ongoing American | | | | clocking almost a double digit revenue growth. |
| engagement, Iraq got completely devastated. | | | | There have also been reports and news, stating |
| Over 1.1 million Iraqis have been killed, some 2.2 | | | | that the contracts for reconstructing Iraq had |
| million displaced, and more than 40% has been | | | | already been issued to these companies, even |
| pushed to abject poverty. The worst affected | | | | before the first bomb was dropped on Iraq. And |
| are the children, 28% of whom are malnourished | | | | it is not about the big companies that have been |
| and some 11% are underweight. | | | | reaping the dividends of war alone, as there are |
| The obvious question then is that when there | | | | almost 100,000 other government contractors |
| weren’t any WMDs, any Al Qaida links, and | | | | (including the likes of DynCorp International, |
| on top of that, of late, there had been glimpses | | | | Blackwater USA, MPRI) who are currently |
| of apparent acceptance of mistake of engaging | | | | operating in Iraq, milking in millions of dollars. All this |
| with Iraq by the President Bush himself, then why | | | | plundering aside, the core agenda of the key |
| is it that American troops are still occupying Iraq? | | | | American loot is still left undone. And that is to |
| And why on the earth am I trying to say that | | | | get the Oil Law passed by the Iraqi government, |
| George Bush has won the Iraq war? Well, the | | | | which would put the final nail on the coffin by |
| answer to this complex question lies in the | | | | virtually allowing the ‘takeover of Iraqi oilfields |
| burgeoning budgets of Pentagon and the financial | | | | by the private companies’. It always was the |
| statements of few of the biggest corporations of | | | | real reason for this war. As I have been stressing |
| America – because all wars aren’t always | | | | from day one, had Iraq been an apple producing |
| won on the battlefields. The fact is that from | | | | country, the cowboys of the west would have |
| almost USD 300 billion in 2001, the defence budget | | | | never bothered about its existence even, forget |
| of the US has grown to a staggering USD 670 | | | | the sovereignty of Kuwait or the fear of |
| billion in 2008. | | | | (nonexistent) WMDs. So, given this background, it |
| So? Well, most of this increased budget – | | | | doesn’t make any sense for President Bush |
| as you would guess – has been consumed by | | | | to order the troops back from Iraq! Does it?? |
| the American ‘war on terror’ and | | | | The cowboy general of the world’s largest |
| engagements with Iraq… and (and this is the big | | | | imperialistic force still has a lot of loot to do… |
| and) … finally got routed to the balance sheets | | | | even if it is at the cost of the lives of another |
| of a few powerful American corporations, who | | | | few million Iraqis and few thousand American |
| had been historically renowned for pocketing war | | | | soldiers and a cost of war which would take |
| dividends. In fact, reports state that 1% of the | | | | generations of Americans and Iraqis to mitigate. |
| companies (contractors of Pentagon) have won | | | | So my friends, make no mistake...President Bush |
| 80% of all the defence contracts, and the top 10 | | | | has actually won the war that he set out for, and |
| cornered a whopping 38% of all the money. If | | | | for the ones he played it out for. |
| you were intelligent it shouldn’t have shocked | | | | |