WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — President Bush said today he is certain that elements of the Iranian government are supplying deadly roadside bombs that kill American troops in Iraq, even if the innermost circle of the government is not involved.
Amerikanerne er nu 100% bombesikre på, at disse hjemmelavede low-tech rørbomber, der måske er skyld i 170 amerikanske soldaters død, er afsendt fra det iranske regime. Til det kan man stille en masse upassende spørgsmål. Hvem er egentlig skyld i, at amerikanske soldater agerer skydeskiver i de irakiske byer? Hvor sikre er amerikanerne i deres antagelser – lige så sikre så amen i kirken og Powel i FN? Det mest interessante spørgsmål drejer sig imiddlertid om noget helt andet. Hvordan i allerverden kan USA, af alle, komme afsted med at beskylde nogen som helst for at eksportere våben. USA er suverænt verdens største eksportør af våben og våbenteknologi, og blandt køberne findes nogle af denne klodes største syndere udi notoriske brud på menneskerettighederne.
Et af de lande USA sælger våben til, er Uzbekistan. Her dræbte militæret, ved en demonstration sidste år, 170 af sine egne borgere. USA kan desværre være sikker på, at de ikke kommer til at høre et ondt ord fra disse kanter.
Følgende citater, fra den New York baserede World Police Institute rapport (U.S. WEAPONS AT WAR 2005: PROMOTING FREEDOM OR FUELING CONFLICT?
U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers Since September 11.) blotlægger den amerikanske dobbeltmoral.
Hele rapporten kan læses på: Arms Trade Resource Center
“Perhaps no single policy is more at odds with President (George W.) Bush’s pledge to ‘end tyranny in our world’ than the United States‘ role as the world’s leading arms exporting nation. All too often, U.S. arms transfers end up fuelling conflict, arming human rights abusers, or falling into the hands of U.S. adversaries”.
In 2003, the last year for which full information is available, the United States transferred weaponry to 18 of the 25 countries involved in active conflicts. From Angola, Chad and Ethiopia, to Colombia, Pakistan and the Philippines, transfers through the two largest U.S. arms sales programs (Foreign Military Sales and Commercial Sales) to these conflict nations totaled nearly $1 billion in 2003, with the vast bulk of the dollar volume going to Israel ($845.6 million).
In 2003, more than half of the top 25 recipients of U.S. arms transfers in the developing world (13 of 25) were defined as undemocratic by the U.S. State Department’s Human Rights Report: in the sense that “citizens do not have the right to change their own government” or that right was seriously abridged. These 13 nations received over $2.7 billion in U.S. arms transfers under the Foreign Military Sales and Commercial Sales programs in 2003, with the top recipients including Saudi Arabia ($1.1 billion), Egypt ($1.0 billion), Kuwait ($153 million), the United Arab Emirates ($110 million) and Uzbekistan ($33 million).
When countries designated by the State Department’s Human Rights Report to have poor human rights records or serious patterns of abuse are factored in, 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.