Bury Me Broken

Bush Arming Dictators + Human Rights Abusers

by Paul Rosenberg at MyDD

We knew it all along, but now we know it in organized detail.
"Perhaps no single policy is more at odds with President Bush's pledge to 'end tyranny in our world' than the United States' role as the world's leading arms exporting nation," according to a new report from the World Policy Institute.
"20 of the top 25 U.S. arms clients in the developing world in 2003-- a full 80%-- were either undemocratic regimes or governments with records of major human rights abuses," according to the report, U.S. WEAPONS AT WAR 2005: PROMOTING FREEDOM OR FUELING CONFLICT? U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers Since September 11.
"All too often, U.S. arms transfers end up fueling conflict, arming human rights abusers, or falling into the hands of U.S. adversaries," the report notes.

This is beyond tragic. Americans, we must have the attention spans of unritalined, pure cane sugar consuming kindergarteners. It seems like only yesterday that the U.S. was allied with Saddam Hussein and allowing American companies to sell him weapons, including biological and chemical to use on Iranians and the Kurds in Iraq while other American companies sold weapons to Iran. So the good ole days are back again as we sell F-16s to Pakistan (supporters of the Afghanistan Taliban) as well as weapons to their border and long time rival Pakistan.

Where is the moral outrage? Where's Dobson? Where's Robertson? Where are all the made up organizations that consist of one person with a website and a catchy, officially sounding title?

posted by niteskolar @ 6:32 PM