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Bush and his boys of the gated community are at it again with the decision to develop more decimating, more insidious, more life-defying biological weapons.

What good will it do? Why do the government and the Pentagon even bother with these developments when the people in government and the military are cowards? They will never use these deliciously inhuman and Satanic methods of aggressive defense just as they will never use the same ilk of nuclear weapons.

There must, then, be some Machiavellian ego trip involved in the manufacture of such weapons of mass destruction. Fear, the generation of fear, fear and more fear is important in the playbook of war and domination. Or maybe there's another reason. Fear and ragged death to all and sundry is important because war is business and if these biological weapons and these nuclear bombs were actually used, war would cease and, therefore, so would business. Profit at all costs. Suffering be damned.

And you know what? The anti-war gang just goes along with this. They don't like war. They don't want war. But they actually do nothing about the cause of continuing warfare: profitable death. What they should be doing is calling for the immediate use of these horrific weapons or get off the pot. They should be challenging the assholes that run the government to put up or shut up. They should force the issue.

The US government doesn't bother with its own laws much less international laws, so what's it doing dragging its feet? Get on with it, you bastards. Bring the world to its knees. Declare final victory. Or get out of the Truman Kitchen. No president since Truman has had any guts at all. No Congressman. Or woman. Why? They're all cowards. They're all tainted, like Lady Macbeth, and they can't was their hands clean. Neither can we.

There is not a piece of US life that is not tainted with war profits and "we the people" aid and abet war by even the simplest of staying alive behavior: eating. Hershey, Mars, Nestl é, Kraft, Coca Cola, PepsiCo, Budweiser, Coors, Proctor & Gamble, General Mills, RJ Reynolds, US Sugar and the big agribusiness cooperatives Monsanto, ADM and ConAgra all profit from war--and we can't live our lives without them. Though, of course, they could, if they wished, live quite well without their war gains.

Ford, Daimler-Chrysler, GM, Rolls Royce (makers of jet engines) and Mitsubishi, the corporations that move much of America, all profit from war in no small part. Big PHRMA, The American Chemical Council (upon which sit Dow and DuPont, our paint, plastics and pesticide makers; General Electric and Eastman-Kodak) are all making big bucks off of war as well as Silicon Valley, Microsoft, CISCO Systems, IBM, HP, Rand Corp., Honeywell, General Dynamics, BASF, ITT, Bell, Canon, Motorola, TRW, Texas Instruments and 3-M (notably Scotch Tape). Boise-Cascade, Georgia-Pacific, US Fiber, International Paper and Dixie Cups supply paper products to the war machine and US citizens.

The garment industry is firmly in the mix, though mostly via their sweatshops such as American Power Source (which receives Mississippi State support), Bremen-Bowen (suppliers to Men's Warehouse), the notorious JH Rutter-Rex (involved in numerous lawsuits) and Guardian Mfg. (makers of gloves and toxic chemical protective gear). And Singer Co. sews them all up. Although I could not find evidence of involvement by Adidas, Nike or the other big shoe manufacturers, I'm sure they profit by way of the military PX. But where the military gets its boots is very interesting: Fujian Footwear, Putian Wingate Footwear and Shenzhen Anson Footwear are all Chinese companies that also supply its own Army (of course). CEIEC-Shenzhen supplies electronics while China is virtually the sole maker of tungsten in the world (think artillery and protective shielding).

From India, the US Armed Forces gets blankets via Siddharth Woolen Mills. Imagine that! A war supplier named after Buddha! But the ironies don't stop here, for the National Industries for the Blind supply war-making devices. Canada plays its role, too, with Cerno Research (logistics) and Carter Inc. (makers of those wonderful CarterBuilt trucks).

Other international business profiteers such as Citigroup, International American Products Inc. (exporters to China), the American Business Centre in Russia, Regent Commerce Network (promoting Business with China), DynCorp (rent-a-cop and mercenary services) and BAE Systems (a British company making such things as Howitzer spare parts, armored combat vehicles, artillery systems and intelligent munitions, and supplying Homeland Security with software and management support) raised the hackles of the GOA due to concerns over fraud, illegal financing and the possible leakage of military secrets to these foreign countries. The IMF, World Bank and WTO are heavily involved in the same types of activities (including money laundering). But we already know about these organizations.