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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.

We cannot even engage in entertainment without supporting companies that profit from war: Indigo Films, Hollywood, Lucas Films Inc., Atari, Sony, Hasbro and a slew of computer action-war games by a variety of companies via DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) subcontracts. Of course, this causes an immense profit for such toy stores as Toys-R-Us and Wal-Mart.

To be quite honest, we can't even earn a college degree without running into the big players. Cal Tech, University of California and USC along with Johns Hopkins University, Harvard and Duke are all well-known for their war work. But then there are such schools as Georgia Tech, Ohio State University, Auburn, University of Michigan, Stanford and Carnegie-Mellon--even Catholic University. Two of my schools, Hopkins and the University of Kansas, are heavily indebted to the making of war.

This is a long and tedious list, mostly of everyday entities we wouldn't consider as making war. But there it is. Our American way of life. If WMD were really used to end the continual maiming and raping and slaughter, the American economy would collapse. Thus, Bush et al. will never use these fear-mongering machines because not only are Bush et al. bought and sold by the biggest corporations, these politicians make money from that same war machinery. To be a peacenik politician is to engage in a conflict of interests.

So. . .they may make great hordes of WMD that can destroy the world many times over but they won't ever use them. It's all bravado and profit. And therefore they are cowards. Self-interested, but cowards. Talk, talk, talk. Jabber, jabber, jabber. But walk, walk, walk? Not on your life, fella.

I say we should push them to it--use the damn weapons to end war. . .or make way for people who will end war. This is the best thing the anti-war folk could do, for they will thus expose the underside of the sickness, they will expose the hypocrisy. Only by pushing for the immediate use of WMD to end all war, to get rid of our enemies--which are everywhere, as with all witch hunts--will they actually end war. The foolish hawks would get behind such a movement without thinking--their favorite activity, not thinking--because they are avid witch hunters. And then the politicos and Satanic military minds would have to put up or. . .

Jimsecor is a freelance writer who has travelled extensively overseas, especially Japan and China. He has published in all genre and produced several plays over the years and has taught theatre, writing and literature.

1. 03-01-2007 21:31

Thank you for the challenge to my humanity.

I had to read this three times to be able to do so without feeling my complicity as a weight of almost unbearable density.

What do you suggest common Americans that find the military machine incompatible with the world they wish to live in do?

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