By William C. Lewis
A very dirty secret that perhaps is not so secret anymore for an ever increasing amount of the population is that war making is a very profitable enterprise for politicians and businessmen.
No matter how many years go buy and regardless of how many people begin to see the futility, destructiveness and utter pointlessness of war the United States government continues to roam the earth in search of new enemies or new causes where it must intervene on behalf of some perceived interest, most commonly called "national security interests."
The reality is that Americans have absolutely no interest at all in having their sons and daughters occupy the planet and that staying at war permanently in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Uganda is the means by which the U.S. government controls the American people by continuing to have them imagine that threats are out there to get them, when the real threat is from the United States government and the planned global system which plans to destroy the United States constitution and leave the people here with no rights while simultaneously building up the economy of China.
Soldiers who fought in the Iraq war should be very angry--especially if they are missing an arm, leg or other limb to find that many of the IED's (Improvised Explosive Devices) that maimed or killed themselves or their fellow soldiers actually came from a company in Minnesota called Digi International.
"The IED detonation parts for the IED's that are being used against our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan were made in a local Minnesota business," said Power Hour radio host Joyce Riley, who found out about this matter after reading a local CBS news report on Wednesday. "I am appalled and angered. When the first time in Iraq or Afghanistan and the IED's went off......I started to think, 'wait a minute, out in that sandbox, how are they making these complicated electrical devices that can detonate and kill and main our troops, how can this happen in the caves of Afghanistan or with only three hours of electricity, how can this happen? Whose making these items and selling them and creating the killing of the military?'"
According to the October 25 CBS news report, parts manufactured by Digi International "ended up in explosive devices that killed and maimed American and Coalition troops in Iraq and Afghanistan." Digi International claims that they were mislead into shipping their parts to companies and individuals who lied about what they were going to be used for.
But this isn't the first time American based companies have benefited from arms sales to whoever the designated "enemy" of the time happens to be.
During World War II American managers of both GM and Ford converted their German plants to military production while simultaneously refusing to step up production in their American factories at the request of the Roosevelt administration(Washington Post). General motors built a manufacturing plant near Berlin in 1935, producing the "blitz" truck. The German army used it in the invasions of Poland, France and the Soviet Union, known as "blitzkreig" attacks. G.M. was the second-largest producer of trucks for the German army after GM/Opel.
Commenting on the matter on his show last Thursday, Radio Liberty host and geopolitical analyst Dr. Stan Monteith wasn't the least bit surprised about the recent revelations that American companies sold weapons used to kill U.S. soldiers in war and said that many of the armaments manufactured by American companies were used to not only kill Russian, French and Polish soldiers, but Americans soldiers as well. He cites various books to back up his claims such as Charles's Higham's, "Trading with the Enemy," and Anthony Sutton's, "Wall Street and the Rise of Adolph Hitler."
"The roadside explosives set off by radio controls were built in Minnesota. The people in Minnesota said,'Oh shucks we had no idea we were building these explosive controlled devices. Why we would never do anything like that.' Ladies and gentlemen, we've always provided the weapons for our enemies. Who provided the weapons for Adolph Hitler during the second world war? Those who listen to my program regularly realize that they were built by American corporations even during the second world war when Americans were over there in charge of those factories. They were building the weapons, they killed our boys at Normandy and killed them at the battle of bulge. This is totally suppressed here in America," he said.
"It's so tragic when you think of all of the men who will bear the pain of their wounds for the rest of their lives and be crippled because of the explosive devices built right here in the United States. The terrorists over there are not sophisticated enough to build those weapons on their own," he said on the show.
"These improvised explosive devices, which are primarily responsible for blowing off so many of the arms and legs of our servicemen and that doesn't even count for all of the people who were killed by the explosive devices and they were not manufactured by the communists, they were not manufactured by the wicked Chinese. They were not manufactured in Iraq or Afghanistan or Pakistan, they were manufactured in Minnesota. Who has been funding the terrorism, where are they getting their money? They've been getting it from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and both of them are in bed with the CIA," he added.
"The American government's important ally in the region is Saudi Arabia, the main source of radical Islam and funder of jihadism. It's the same with UK," says MIT linguistics professor and political analyst Noam Chomsky.
For those who do not wish to believe Dr. Monteith and Noam Chomsky's claims about Saudi Arabia and Pakistan funding the Taliban, these assertions are easily backed up by multiple sources and the fact that many people still are not making these crucial connections can only be explained by their inability to even pay attention to mainstream news sources. The Saudis are U.S. allies who receive billions of dollars of aid each year to buy American weapons and Pakistan, whose ISI funds the Taliban in Afghanistan, also receives billions of dollars of aid from the United States government each year.
According a memorandum written by power elite globalist and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and obtained by Wikileaks, the Saudi Arabian government refuses to crack down on individuals and is "reluctant to cut off money being sent to the Taliban in Afghanistan,"(CBS NEWS). According to a Sunday, July 25 2010 Reuters report, "U.S. officials in Afghanistan strongly suspected Pakistan was secretly supporting the Taliban while taking massive amounts of American aid, military reports leaked on Sunday show, raising new questions about President Barack Obama's war strategy."
The report cites Wikileaks documents that "suggest that Pakistan, an ostensible ally of the United States, allows representatives of its spy service to meet directly with the Taliban in secret strategy sessions to organize networks of militant groups that fight against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders."
According to a London Guardian article based upon the Wikileaks documents that uncovered the Afghan war logs, "US military intelligence reports accuse Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency of arming, training and financing the Taliban insurgency since 2004.............bringing fresh scrutiny on one of the war's most contentious issues."
The article goes on to state that 180 files in the war logs contained assertions that the Pakistani ISI's undercover agents did the following:
1.Trained suicide bombers,
2.Sent money to insurgents across the border
3.Provided secret assistants for plot to assassinate Afghan President Hamid
Karzai,
4.Provided assistance to figure out how to attack Nato warplanes
5.Suggested that the insurgents poison western troops' beer supply."
Total aid spending for this fiscal year for Pakistan is expected to total around $2.5 billion, according to the United States Congress. Why do we openly fund a government, whose intelligence service trains suicide bombers to attack U.S. soldiers occupying Afghanistan, with military aid, economic aid, development aid?
If the American government and American arms companies who sell weapons to the Saudi government really care about U.S. soldiers currently in Afghanistan, then why do they continue to fund the Saudi government, maintain full diplomatic relations and sell its government the weapons when it has been fully disclosed that this government "harbors" individuals funding Taliban/Al Qaeda and doesn't desire to cut the funding from these individuals off? Further, through host nation trucking contracts, the U.S. government actually indirectly funds the Taliban as these companies pay off the Taliban to escort convey supply missions so they are not attacked by other insurgents. So, yes, the Taliban, which kills, and yes, blows the legs off of U.S. soldiers in an effort to fight the U.S. occupation, is funded by our tax dollars to restrain onslaughts against supply convoys so that this phony war can continue to be fought in other areas of the country. There are six major companies that handle logistics-including, food, munitions and water to United States military in Afghanistan, many of which are run by Afghans themselves.
According to U.S. military officials in Kabul, 10 percent of the Pentagon's logistics contracts consists of payments to insurgents, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to fund insurgent operations against the U.S. Powerful politicians and businessmen don't really care if they fund a government or sell a government weapons that, in turn, refuses to cut off funding to groups that blow the legs off of U.S. soldiers with improvised explosive devices that came from the Minnesota based firm, Digi International. In other words, they care about money and power and to hell with the soldiers. It was former Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, who said that U.S. soldiers were in his words,'dumb, stupid animals to be used' as pawns for foreign policy." The masters of the war machine only care about weapons sales, natural resources control and social control of the world, and could care less about the average person.
(C)William C. Lewis
Sources:
Ford and GM Scrutinized for Alleged Nazi Collaboration
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm
Local Company Had Parts In IED’s That Killed Troops
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/10/25/indictment-local-company-had-parts-in-ieds-that-killed-troops/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904823804576504383697702592.html
U.S. Links Pakistani Aid to Performance
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904823804576504383697702592.html
Saudi's Fund Taliban: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20024653-503543.html
How the US Funds the Taliban
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-us-funds-taliban?page=0,2
Pakistan secretly backed Taliban: Wikileaks
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/26/idUSN25163580
Afghanistan war logs: Clandestine aid for Taliban bears Pakistan's fingerprints
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/pakistan-isi-accused-taliban-afghanistan
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