August 20, 2007
by Robert W. Barker

A loud cry went up from the war hawks when the US government found a few weapons in Iraq recently; that were possibly Iranian, via Russia. The call increased for bombing or punishing Iran for such "infractions." This is obviously the latest Neo-Con maneuver to keep us in a constant state of war. For they know full well that the major provider of weapons to Iraqi insurgents is the USA, not al qaeda or Iran.

A recent report from the Government accountability Office revealed that the Pentagon cannot account for as many as 30% of all weapons given to Iraqi forces between 2004 and 2007.

That's three years and hundreds of thousands of weapons.

Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post reported recently that the Pentagon told him it was 190,000 AK-47's and automatic pistols that were missing. And that does not include the 14000 reported missing in 2004, a separate incident that went unnoticed on American Media.

Amnesty International claims that an additional US sanctioned arms transfer from Bosnia to Iraq may be missing as well, including as many another one hundred thousand guns, on the streets of Iraq.

Many of us recall in 2004 when a huge cache of explosives went missing, supposedly under the guard of US troops, but it seems no one was home.

Not a few explosives went missing, nearly 380 Tons of deadly conventional explosives.

That much explosive power produces a lot of road side bombs, and it is no doubt these stolen explosives have often provided the fire power to kill many American and coalition troops; as well as civilians. Once again, Americans are made aware of a scenario where the enemy is given ample chance to arm against our own troops, with explosives that we should have been watching.

Incompetence goes hand in hand with greed and arrogance, our own people are killed with American Tax Payer funded weapons and explosives. The stolen explosives were mainly HMX and RDX - two very powerful agents with enough force in small amounts to maim, kill, or destroy property.

These two were the same explosive agents utilized to bring down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbi Scotland, the terrorist used less than one pound of this agent; in Iraq we gave them 380 Tons.

That's two thousand pounds times 380 = 760,000 lb.. That's a lot of fire power turned loose on our troops and allies, as well as the Iraq civilian population.

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One single-pound roadside bomb a day for 759.63 years, that's a lot of death and destruction. I hear the public saying:

"Where do those insurgents get those explosives they use everyday?"

Well folks, we allowed them to grab our explosives - enough for years of terror, weapons sufficient to put up a strong front.  Wee train the Iraqis to use them, then many return to the insurgents or spy for them, and we wonder why the insurgents are so hard to contain?

Halliburton, Brown and Root, Blackstone and Carlyle Group, along with other war contractors, construction giants and tech companies, profit from this mayhem and the missing weapons provide the source {inadvertent or not} of the blood money.

Lets face it, war is big business, and if the enemy has no firepower it must be provided to have a proper battle after all.

And, this strange phenomena is not limited to Iraq. In Lebanon, weapons and funds provided by the USA ended up in Sunni extremist and Hezbullah gorilla's hands.

Recently, we heard Afghani President Karzai announce the biggest opium crop in Afghanistan history, and the illegal gun trade flourishes with the profits.

Mr. Bush swears he is going after al qaeda as well as the Bush "family friend" Bin Laden in Afghanistan and West Pakistan. However, we have heard that same thing for six years, and there's still no concerted effort to get Osama Bin Laden as of yet.

Meanwhile, Kosovo is reported to be the biggest heroine supplier in the world, and they use the money to buy weapons for the Western Supported, "Freedom Fighters." And the need for war grows. The Corporate War Machine marches on, and the war profiteers make millions as the American taxpayers are left with the final bill...and a huge debt.

Funded by this weapon and drug trade is also the corporate-run Camp Bondsteel - another Guantanamo sitting very near the trans-Balkan Pipeline - conveniently placed for security. Is it to guard the Pipeline or torture and detain anyone deemed dangerous by a few select people?

War and illegal gun profits are being used to stir up Bellum and increase drug production.  It's also used to finance secret prisons across the globe.

We are seeing American weapons and tax funds being handed to the very people the Neo Cons in D.C. claimed were our enemies. Missing, abandoned, or traded for drugs, the weapons industry is full force involved in our own demise.

As we consider the implications of this, we must realize the insurgents pull the trigger, but we train, arm, and supply them with the firepower to murder our own.

As the debt grows to China, Japan and the World Bank, to finance unjustified war and out of control spending; as statistics of deaths increase and the truth on who is actuallly killing our children comes out; perhaps then we will see that the real enemy often wears Armani Suits; not just turbans.

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Robert W. Barker [send him email] is a writer, professional photographer and travel aficionado from Eureka Ca. His work is carried on many web sites around the globe, a first novel recently copyrighted in the library of Congress, is soon to be published.