George W. Bush has taken his re-election as an endorsement of his criminal activity as it relates to funneling billions of US tax dollars into the coffers of his corporate friends, like Halliburton and Dick Cheney who holds nearly 10 million dollars in stock while the corrupt corporation receives no bid contracts from the Bush administration. But worse yet is George Bush’s endorsement of terrorism. His personal friend Ken Lay and other criminal conspirators of the Enron corporation conspired with a number of California power companies to orchestrate terror attacks directly against the citizens of California. The goal of extorting money was very successful and George Bush’s silence on this terrorist attack is a tacit endorsement of these terrorist activities carried out against American citizens. Further, rather than concentrate on capturing or killing Osama bin Laden when he was cornered in Afghanistan, Bush proceeded to with draw resources from the search for bin Laden and began his attack of Iraq, so far successfully killing nearly 150,000 Iraqi citizens. This of course all being done in the name of “democracy” because Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, oh no scratch that thought, Iraq was invaded because Hussein was thinking about weapons of mass destruction and he was a brutal dictator. No unlike the brutal regime in China where Bush ships so many US jobs but I guess when his corporate buddies are making money the nature and definition of brutality changes.
There is one very disturbing fact that has become all to clear; war profiteers can only profit when there is a war. And while Bush’s corporate friends (including Dick Cheney) profit to the point of billions while military families of men and women serving in Iraq survive on welfare, something is terribly wrong. When 9 Billion Dollars is “lost” in Iraq and US troops are sent into combat with out properly armored vehicles, something is terribly wrong. When soldiers returning home missing limbs and the US military docks them pay or fines them for leaving a sleeping bag in Iraq, something is terribly wrong. When the bodies of military heroes are shipped home in coffins and families receive $12,000 for that life ($6,000 of it being taxable) while war profiteering corporations make billions, something is terribly wrong.
After making billions of dollars would it be too much to ask a corporation to donated some armored vehicles or some body armor. But I guess the real bottom line of war is profit and President Bush has been very successful at making sure his friends are making plenty of that, something is very wrong.
Following is a list of Corporations that have received contracts from the US government and made political donations:
| Corporation Boeing CSC/ DynCorp General Dynamics General Electric Northrop Grumman Halliburton Lockheed Raytheon Science App. Int. Corp. United Technologies Total |
Military Contracts
2003 $17.3 Billion $ 2.5 Billion $ 8.2 Billion $ 2.8 Billion $11.1 Billion $ 3.9 Billion $21.9 Billion $ 7.9 Billion $ 2.6 Billion $ 4.5 Billion $84.7 Billion |
Political Contributions
2002 $1.60 Million $1.64 Million $ .22 Million $2.01 Million $9.70 Million $1.08 Million $ .70 Million $ .70 Million $17.7 Million |
There was no evidence of these corporations donating any military supplies to the war effort or supplying any serving soldiers’ family having to exist on welfare food or clothing, nor could I find any evidence of any of these corporations making donations to any of the wounded or maimed soldiers returning from war. I always thought that making profit from war was a criminal activity, is something terribly wrong here?