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Monday, December 03, 2007

War is Good for Business: Anglo-American Military Industrial Complex Sells Weapons to Iran

The capitalistic motto that perpetuates the Anglo-American Military Industrial Complex (MIC) is “create ogres then slay them for profits.”

While the US government is allegedly escalating rhetoric against Iran , and tightening economic sanctions against that country, the MIC was selling this year the Iranians through publicly available channels F-14 aircraft parts.

According to Jane’s Intelligence report, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on August 1, 2007 that more than 1,400 parts that are unique to the US Navy’s (USN’s) Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft were sold to Iran through publicly available channels in February 2007.

These sales occurred despite a January 2007 announcement by the US Department of Defense (DoD) that all such sales would be suspended until DoDs Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) had made improvements to its security procedures. (Jane’s Intelligence Report, 2007).

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