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| Mark Schurr is a contributor to The Skewed Review. |
War benefits sadistic CEOs of certain companies,
breeds injustice and prejudice, and promotes mass rape.
“Peace sells, but who's buying” are lyrics from the band Megadeth,
which resonate the awful truth of war.
American companies account for more than 60 percent of
arms sales revenue according to the Huffington Post, "Companies Profiting The Most From War: 24/7 Wall St."
The U.S. has 44 of the top 100 companies profiting
from the former Iraq and current Afghan war. Since 2001, the U.S. has spent more
than $6 trillion (a trillion is a million millions) on war and preparation.
Talk about taking money to make money!
The Bill Quigley article, Corporations Profitfrom Permanent War, reveals excellent information about the Middle East debacle. American companies such as Lockheed Martin provide hi-tech
aircrafts (among other infinite evils to mankind) to bomb Middle Eastern women,
children and some insurgents. Boeing helps transport young men and women to
their deaths, injuries or mental health problems.
Lockheed Marin and Boeing are the top two American and
over all companies in the world profiting from the current war in the Middle
East.
Many of the U.S. military personnel indeed come back
from the former Iraq and current Afghanistan war unscathed. Nonetheless, more
than 6,500 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003,
according to icasualties.org.
More than 32,200 Americans have been wounded according
to a June 21 New York Times article.
How many U.S. troops have posttraumatic stress
disorder (Shell Shock) from the Iraq and Afghanistan war since 2003 alone?
PTSD may occur because soldiers see fellow troops
being blow to pieces on a land mine. Another cause for PTSD might happen when
soldiers witness their platoon gang raping and killing underage Middle Eastern
girls.
A rare documented case of such a heinous crime
occurred in the town of Yusufiya, about 20 miles south of Bagdad in 2006. Four
U.S. soldiers raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, then killed her along with her
mom, dad and her five-year-old sister.
The details in
the article are much more horrific.
I believe much more of these inhumane crimes continue
on, but the balderdash of our government shrouds us all.
"Deadly Indifference," a novel by accredited
writers Michael D. Brown and Ted
Schwarz, claim there are currently more than 50 wars
on Earth right now, and I believe it.
Anderson Copper from CNN reported about the Congo War
in a January 2008 as a "War Against Women." The written part of this report details the brutal vicious gang
rape of an African woman and the murder of her little brother. Simply horrid.
In a 10-year span alone, hundreds of thousands of African women have been
raped, most of them gang raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Vividly invidious details of any war could be illustrated these
days.
If you haven't guessed, I don't have much faith in world
government. Liquid lunacy fills the goblet of political greed and wets the lips
of the unethical, which bleeds into the innocent. World leaders are harbingers
of havoc and apprentices of apathy.
To me, all wars, past and present, thrive on the distribution of
destruction. One nation, under a nefarious government, thrust into its lies and
bred to consume.
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