How America's War Machine Turns On Itself - Think Progress
Lost in the usual childish media prattle and instant politicalization whenever a new fact is unveiled, is the fact that when aging Iraq /Iran war chemical weapons are found in Iraq ............the weapons were all Made In America.
The country really needs to to a little navel gazing about its own imperialistic tendencies and the point of being now the supplier of 75% of all the worlds conventional weapons supplies.
Yes, America ships to the world 12 times more weapons than the number 2 arms dealer, Russia.
America is the most dangerous country in the world, the most heavily armed domestic and military, mix in mass paranoia generated by a gleefully paranoid mass media and a fascist political opposition that is openly racist and treasonous, anti-intellectual and anti-science, thank goodness President Obama is in charge.
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http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/10/16/3580899/america-arms-sales/
An investigative report released by the New York Times on Wednesday noted numerous instances in which American troops encountered chemical weapons. Far from the “Weapons of Mass Destruction” President George W. Bush used to justify the invasion of Iraq, these were “filthy, rusty, or corroded” relics of the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. Still, the U.S. military personnel failed to properly report these encounters on several occasions, and neglected to properly dispose of them, leaving behind the dangerous — though aging — caches of chemicals.
“The Iraqi troops who stood at that entrance are no longer there,” the Times’ C.J. Chivers wrote of a bunker containing cyanide precursors and sarin rockets. “The compound, never entombed, is now controlled by the Islamic State” or ISIS, as the militant group is often called.
The irony is that the chemical weapons were made, in large part, by American companies –- but that’s the case with a lot of arms that land in enemy hands.
The U.S. sold $66.3 billion in weapons last year –- more than three-fourths of the entire global arms market. As a comparison, Russia clocked in as number two on the list of top sellers with $4.8 billion in arms deals.
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