Re: U.S. hides most of Iraq weapons report (then says its full of holes)

[Les Schaffer <schaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> America tore out 8000 pages of Iraq dossier  (excerpt)
> By James Cusick and Felicity Arbuthnot

for an interesting comparison, see this article on US weapons program
funding, below. tho no-one here is going to cry about inability to
create a program of more lethal, higher tech weapons systems, combined
with the allegations of US companies selling system components to Iraq
and such, its clear (as always) there is a major economic/political
force at work in the heart of the imperialist center that depends in
part on sustaining military hardware production levels as a way of
keeping the economic system itself afloat.

les schaffer


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So Much for the Plan to Scrap Old Weapons By LESLIE WAYNE

Over the past year, even as he hunted down terrorists, oversaw
lingering operations in Afghanistan and made plans for a possible
invasion of Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld was also
waging a battle much closer to home. On that front, pitted against
American military contractors, he has more than met his match.
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http://nytimes.com/2002/12/22/business/yourmoney/22MILI.html


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