How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them

Joe R. Golowka joeg at ieee.org
Mon Sep 9 15:33:08 PDT 2002


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> b) payback to the Brits for sending their mercenaries to Afghanistan -
> for some unknown to me reason the Brits seem to be the prime mover of
> military actions in the Persian Gulf; any ideas why?

Iraq & Saudi Arabia are former British puppet states.


> any other suggestions?

Oil, feeding the military industrial complex.

-- Joe R. Golowka JoeG at ieee.org Anarchist FAQ -- http://www.anarchyfaq.org

"According to the libertarian litany, if an industry or an institution is making a profit, it is satisfying "wants" whose origins and content are deliberately disregarded. But what we want, what we are capable of wanting is relative to the forms of social organization. People "want" fast food because they have to hurry back to work, because processed supermarket food doesn't taste much better anyway, because the nuclear family (for the dwindling minority who have even that to go home to) is too small and too stressed to sustain much festivity in cooking and eating -- and so forth. It is only people who can't get what they want who resign themselves to want more of what they can get. Since we cannot be friends and lovers, we wail for more candy." - Bob Black



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