Glocks and spiels

Hah.

You just GOTTA love this kind of stuff:

A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office last month showed that since 2004, some 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and Glock pistols, bought with U.S. money for Iraqi security forces, have gone missing.

Missing? Or, intentionally misplaced in order to foster endless violence in the Middle East which is profitable for the enormous American and western assets in place there? Part of the great lie is in developing a belief, especially amongst the American public, that the carnage and chaos in Iraq, and other similar vacation spots, is bad for business. That the oil businesses suffer because of the turmoil, etc. Ahem...oil businesses suffering? More violence means prices get jacked up. Exxon and the other heavy hitters have been reporting record profits in almost every quarter for years. And the other major contractors? Hmm...Military/defense (no explanation needed, they go out of business when the killing stops) and heavy construction. Well, you've got to have stuff to rebuild and nothing keeps you in business better than when shit keeps getting blown up and needs to be rebuilt.

Deluded apologists might say "No way! There's no way the U.S. would deliberately take that kind of egg on the face for such a perceived cock-up. It would hurt their worldwide political standing!" Umm, can someone point out to me who has really had their political power hurt? Besides, every embarrassed press conference pays off a thousand to one in what really counts: profit. Then they just fire some schmuck way down the line, blaming everything on him or some accounting glitch and everything settles back in again, calm and quiet. Until the next one.

Oh yeah. Great stuff. "Oops...I just can't imagine what happened to the guns!" That amount of high-priced deadly weaponry doesn't get accidentally left out in the rain because a couple of security guards got hammered and passed out in their own vomit. That shit was meant to happen.

I heard an expression a while ago which struck a chord with me: "We no longer live in a society, we live in an economy. Right and wrong are not determined by social mores, but only by profitability."

Yup.