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GORDON DUFF: THE MONEYTRAIN OF WAR
CORRUPTION AND MILITARY GAME PLAYING CLOUD WAR OBJECTIVES
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
March 3, 2010
Sandwiched in a region of gas, oil, copper and coal are two nations, Afghanistan and Pakistan, locked in a death struggle. Every American isn’t ready to learn about British colonialism, the Russian occupation, not that many years ago or the mistakes of the past. We are making our own every day. War has become a sport, not for the men and women fighting but for endless contractors from, not only America, but around the world, rushing into the region, buying their way onto the “money train of war.”
There is a real war going on. There is no doubt about that. Nobody is entirely sure why or if America’s efforts are helping or hurting. None of the hard questions are being asked. We picked a side, as usual, a corrupt and hated ally and, from then on, we learn nothing. We only listen to voices telling us our mistakes were correct; welcome to the world of “military thinking.” Add over a hundred thousand “civilian contractors,” nobody knows the real number along with thousands of spies, thieves and con-men and you have Afghanistan and its sprawling capital of Kabul.
Hidden away with the criminal elements and terrorists in uniforms, suits and “local garb” are a faithful few trying to build a nation and simply do the right things. Some of them are Americans. Forgive me, but even our State Department’s USAID workers are starting to learn and some of them are doing an outstanding job. However, those who would make the most difference will never be funded, never stand a chance. Kabul is run by a Mafia, an international criminal element that ties American funding to criminal gangs who, using “government influence” peddle “development contracts” like selling crack or meth on a street corner.
Need a new well? The American people will pay a million to have it dug. The contract will be awarded to a criminal gang in Kabul who will sell it to a crooked contractor. The contract itself will go thru a dozen hands, each skimming more off the top.
In the end, you will end up digging the well yourself with a sharp stick. Welcome to Afghanistan.
In a country where the idea winning a war has been proven insane for centuries, America finds herself driven to use the world’s most powerful military against scattered and disorganized tribes with no real leadership while lying continually about the nature of everything. Why would the United States lie? Would it be because there are no real leaders, no Osama, long dead, and the others, minor leaders, some with less actual support than President Karzai himself.
The “organized, well trained and highly armed” enemy we are fighting are tribesmen with no real leaders, no organization and no politics. Some have never seen a Koran. Many are bandits, some simple tribemen. None are who we say they are. Even an idiot will notice the new Indian Army issue weapons carried in Afghanistan. Don’t ask how they got there.
INDIAN ARMY COMMANDO CARRYING LATEST "TALIBAN" RIFLE
We are liars.
At times, Karzai is rumored to lose control of his own household staff. He used to be called, jokingly, “the mayor of Kabul.” Now, dozens of new “Mafia Don’s” control Kabul. Maybe they will form a Jirga of their own, appoint a “Don Corleone” or “John Gotti” and begin ruling as an official kleptocracy like the United States.
“Rear eschelon” corruption, black markets and the “behind the war” party circuit, visiting politicians, journalists (guilty) and Pentagon jokesters have been around a long time. Their stench must still pollute Vietnam. They were thicker than maggots on a rotting corpse there. (not guilty)
The neocon concept of “privatization” has taken the corruption of Saigon and DaNang and added the “Baghdad shuffle.” Kabul will be the perfection of this, a war where 99% of funding is stolen, where policy is made by criminal elements from Washington DC, Tel Aviv, London, Stuttgart, Toronto, Mumbai, everywhere but on the ground and by the right people.
War aims?
If it isn’t nailed down, steal it or bill the Pentagon “cost plus” for it.
The problem with dragging, not only America’s vast infrastructure of corruption to Kabul (and Islamabad) is that this really is a war. The old habits of the Bush administration, if you need an excuse to do something wrong, hire a liar, hire a publicist and stay “on message” hasn’t ended. Thieves bled America dry in Iraq. How many times can we say it, $295 billion dollars were stolen, officially. 3 times that was stolen unofficially, almost all of it thru private contractors.
Can you imagine the United States Army paying $1000 a day for a security guard from Ethiopia who can’t read, has no shoes and is being paid $30 a month? More money in the US budget went for things like this than for education last year. How did security work out for us? Car bombers drove thru Iraq and “private” checkpoints hundreds of times, killing thousands. Security is a dream, a dream when our own policies and the billions we spend help build terrorism, ignorance and extremism.
We are doing even worse in Afghanistan. Pakistan if fighting for its life. It trusted America but America decided it, by “it” I mean the real America, the thieves, could make more money with India. India, our new “partner” in the region is profiting massively on our war. So, America is loading India with weapons, “Iran-Contra” style, peddled thru Israel. What is our long term goal? Is there one?
The lobbyists of Washington, defense, Israel/AIPAC and the new Indian lobby are about business. The type of business we aren’t so open about. We trade American lives, the security of Afghanistan and Pakistan for a sea of debt, massive profits for Israel and India and permanent war in Asia.
What does America stand to lose?
Does “honor” count? How about this, if you thought our economy collapsed before, how do you think we are financing all of this? How long will China keep backing America by buying up our endless debt. The writing is on the wall on this one, nobody wants to finance American anymore, not China, not Russia, not Saudi Arabia, not Germany, nobody.
Its about oligarchies, stupid! Do you really think the money that “disappears” doesn’t magically reappear? What do you think a “bailout” is? Its all the same game, war profiteering, gasoline price fixing, foreign lobbys buying and selling our government and directing our foreign policy for their own means. The folks living in the gated communites don’t care, they are still drowning in cash.
They don’t see homeless veterans or your kids leaving college for lack of tuition. They never did but they were never in total control before, they didn’t control our news, they didn’t own all the government before. What have we made?
Can America still call itself a democracy when it can go to war simply because a few corporations think its a good idea? We all suspect it. We know those corporations, you know the ones, along with our oh so very good and loyal friends in Israel, the ones who write our news, the ones who 90% of Congress bows to, the ones who could care if we all burned in hell, need us broke, stupid and sending generations of our children to war.
You can see it all in the sprawl of Kabul, the honest and good, the decent and the foul. When thousands of decisions are made that can only indicate one thing, the utter corruption of everything we touch, infected with lies, payoffs, it is easy to see, easy to understand why wars go on so long.
Today we are building a police force in Afghanistan, spending billions to create something a free and decent Afghanistan will have to disband, retrain, perhaps even jail half of. We are spending billions creating a mercenary army in Afghanistan, an army that meant to serve warlord and drug dealers, never an army for the people of Afghanistan.
We know what we are doing, we simply don’t care. Too much money is being made.
Perhaps I could invent a cheaper way of rigging elections or processing opium into heroin. I could join the money train too.
and so it goes….
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So very true article, the israelis are the growing at the cost of americans!
Thank you for spelling the truth..
I am a witness to that ..
It is a chaos and a breathing ground for MAFIA type people who forcefully make their way to secure any government contract..
This could lead into the Taliba’s hands if the MAFIA is controlled by them, a full investigation must be opened up as why the high level Afghan government officials sons and relatives are able to secure US AID contracts in advance?
It will continue due to the blackmail and extortion of American elected and appointed officials. These sleezeballs are on tape, film, and do as they are told; vote and appropiate billions to stay in position. It’s not their kids dying or getting wounded, nor is it their money. All three major branches of the US government have been taken overwith the latest example being the US Supreme Court approving the corporate electioneering. The Rothchild inspired electronic voting macchines which use a land line fax modem to send election night voting results will continue to empower those mentioned above. We have actually witnessed the takeover and fall of Ameirica. In sports, the game was fixed and the bookies made out rather well.
See it’s like this… We was taught in school a couple of lifetimes ago, “it’s not weather you win or loser, it’s how you play the game” (think it had something to do with good sportsmanship back then). But now it has a couple of words added over the years. Now it says, It’s not weather you win or lose, heaven forbid. It’s how LONG you can play ‘the game’”.
Hmm, ‘the game’? Didn’t I read about ‘The Game’ when I read that book “Kim” by Rudyard Kipling ? Written many years ago about a kid being pulled many different ways in Afghanistan. Wonder if that’s US or maybe it’s about Afghans or maybe it’s about bad Government or maybe it’s something everybody should have read before we got involved there? Maybe they did and we are living it now? Naaahhh. Can’t be!
Alton,
Been thinking about Kipling alot. It has been surprising that so much of the good of British culture survives in the region, living hand in hand with Islam.
I have had alot of tea recently in the homes of the wealthy and powerful and in small shops on hillside trails.
But it is much more than tea.
g
Spot on Duff,
If one finds Gordon’s narrative a little too skull numbing, may I suggest a due diligence of his take by reading John Perkins ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’ which qualifies as self-defense for most of the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
Clip form: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbmtde_intervention-de-john-perkins-zeitge_news
Then connect the dots with this debriefing of an economic Nobel prize… http://www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/
Executive Resume is pretty straight forward…
PRIVATIZE THE PROFITS
SOCIALIZE THE COST
… worldwide !
“We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane.” – Jules Carlysle
Thanks again for your work thta goes way beyond the call of duty indeed
The ghost is constant and not leave you until complete debacle beleaguers you-Uncle Sam!
Why don’t you fight in the way of Allah for those abused,humiliated, persecuted innocuous women and children who cried” O thy Lord! rescue us from this land of persecution; its inhabitants are oppressor indeed ; send a savior army for us”(From the Holy Quran)
Uncle Sam! The souls of the cherubic kids who are now roaming in the Eden garden are cursing you! do you hear that? The souls of the virgin Marry s’ who were adulterated by the Yankee crusaders in Abu Gharib-the new Gulag are cursing you! Do you hear that?
The ghosts of the Angels will not leave you Uncle Sam! Army of God is marching! The reconnaissance vanguards are splitting you asunder in the basement of Ridge of Hindukush. You will be the worst victim of defeat by the Taliban in Afghanistan! Don’t worry! we will not keep any leeway for you! God’s force will cross the Atlantic and reach above the Statue of Liberty! Please don’t think that we will commit the same blunder you do.
You have killed us brutally. You have destroyed our kids, our family, society, infrastructures, mosques, shrines, countries! Our mothers lost their kids, our sisters became widows, our children are orphans. Our economy is paralyzed by your invasion, our youth are waiting for their death in Guantanamo for fighting against the crusaders with the allegation of attachment with Al Qaeda bugaboo. What have you done with us will make the devil ashamed itself ! Not us- the generation of yours in the imminent future will curse you for the bestiality you committed!
What will be our retaliation- do you know? Killing,raping, plundering like you? No and never. We will teach you humanity, forgiveness and generosity! As Our prophet Muhammad (peace be upon Him) – fourteen hundreds years ago- forgave his arch rival and embrace them with unprecedented Amnesty ; we, with the spirit of our beloved prophet will portray the beauty of Islam in front of you. You are defeated by us in the battle field and we will win USA with the paramount spirit of Islam- the religion selected by God! Our victory is obvious- history attested us.
At the coda I would like transcribe a verse from the Quran-” As right hood advents, falsehood perishes cause falsehood by its nature is bound to perish.
Duff,
I appreciate the new addition of photos to your articles. “Pictures are worth…”
This is the most rubbish article ever written. It speaks on topics of Indian soldiers holding the latest acclaimed *Taliban* rifle? Those are actually, Indias Indegenously produced INSAS LMG’s and so forth. Not one Taliban member as been caught with an INSAS rifle. Even Indian Rifles are not allowed on foreign soil to offer even a perception of a mythical contractual security service.
The writer seems to have an aw inspiring distortion of facts for his ingrained readers, who seem to be Muslim. The Indians and Israelis have been at the forefront of terror attacks and atempts since 1947. Even the Russians and Chinese face similar problems in their Turkic-Mongloid regions. All the terror reported there, by their own countries Goverment Sponsored Media clearly indicates that the Terror is bred and raised in Pakistan. The local communities in Pakistan are the reason Afghanistan remained a basket case. The Pakistanis are openly taking advantage of the Americans in front of the entire world for aid and aid stupilated merchandise.
If Pakistan needs new Cobra Helicopters from the U.S of A, it will crash its own, Owned and Operated Cobra, in a fictional battle, and the Pakistani army will cry on live telivision, begging for more to fight the global war on terror.
This has been done with ever weapon Pakistan has procured. But theres strong logic to the U.S approch behind this deal. The reason they appease the Pakistanis to the Indians, is security forces are gather logistics to Pakistans nuclear and missle containing sites, and will soon enough disarm Pakistan of its Nuclear Weapons.
So you really think a superpower like America is blond to the open lies of Islam and its followers? Do you think the C.I.A is blind to the Nuclear Material which was proliferated from Pakistan under guidance of the ISI and the Pakistani Army to Iran, Syria, and especially North Korea? Even the Chinese involvment is documented by high level sources in the C.I.A from the Wall Street Journal who openly claim the Chinese orchestrated the whole thing under their wing.
The author needs atleast a highschool education of the current events. I have recently come across some inbreds, writing about India, US, and Israeli allignment in causing terror, but as I stated before, those articles are written by Inbreds.
The Muslims talk of American war crimes in Iraq, yet the Chaldean (Catholic) Iraqis were killed in thousands without any Muslim outcry. The Sunnis in power during Saddam never spoke out of the horrble crimes commited against the Shias under Saddam, yet when the American came to rid themselves of Saddam, even under false pretences, the dirty Sunni’s started to align with terrorist elements and attack americans. The Shia committed the same onslaught.
Wake up, and open your eyes, because when you write rubbish, and it is read by learned peoples, you will have your silly wanker ass handed to your every time.