Gold Star Families Set to Show "War is a Racket", Corporations Pay Taliban

[munkle]

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Gold Star Families May Show "War is a Racket," Corporations Paying Enemy

In an landmark case for families of military veterans, a large group of plaintiffs , including families of fallen soldiers, have accused American corporations, including Louis Berger Group, of playing both sides in Afghanistan for profit, even funding the Taliban which uses the proceeds to kill American soldiers. The families say the corporations pay what amounts to protection money to the Taliban for allowing projects, many ultimately doomed, to continue.

The lawsuit comes on the heels of a damning Washington Post series The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War, which lambastes the US government for lying about progress in the war.

The UK Guardian reported on the Washington Post series:

"Hundreds of confidential interviews with key figures involved in prosecuting the 18-year US war in Afghanistan have revealed that the US public has been consistently misled about an unwinnable conflict."

Another major defendant in the lawsuit is Kansas City-based Black & Veatch.

In 2011 Massachusetts Congressman John Tierney, a Democrat, chaired an investigation into a system of the Pentagon paying "protection money" to the Taliban for the safe passage of NATO supply convoys through hostile territory in Afghanistan, which is most of the country. The report, produced by House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, was entitled Warlord Inc.

In that report, the "protection money" to insurgents was studied for one $2 billion contract to HNT, Host Nation Trucking. The report concluded definitively that up to 20 percent of funds for contracts to transport U.S. military supplies are knowingly and systematically paid to insurgents

In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on December 3, 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted:

"You offload a ship in Karachi and by the time whatever it is – you know, muffins for our soldiers’ breakfasts or anti-IED equipment – gets to where we’re headed, it goes through a lot of hands. And one of the major sources of funding for the Taliban is the protection money."

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[Tigerace117]

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Gee, so fighting Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan was a “racket”? Sure that’s the argument you want to go with?

 

[bearpoker]

Gee, so fighting Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan was a “racket”? Sure that’s the argument you want to go with?

Your desperation is showing and it's not pretty.

 

[Tigerace117]

Your desperation is showing and it's not pretty.

“War is a Racket”

Not “Gee, Some Wars are A-Okay but gee, some aren’t so good”

No, “War is a Racket” is a pretty explicit, and absolutist, theory.

I’m just taking it to it’s conclusion—if war is a “racket” then supposedly fighting the Nazis would also be a “racket”.

Considering the OP is a conspiracy theorist, pointing out the glaring flaws in his case is rather amusing.

 

[Helix]

the way to solve for profit war is to make it unprofitable for everyone. for example, i support significant wartime tax rates on all income levels, as well as channeling the profits made from war back into the effort instead of into the pockets of fat cats. if the average Joe is bitten hard in the wallet and there's little in it for the billionaires, wars would most likely be very short, if at all. shared sacrifice.

 

[bearpoker]

“War is a Racket”

Not “Gee, Some Wars are A-Okay but gee, some aren’t so good”

No, “War is a Racket” is a pretty explicit, and absolutist, theory.

I’m just taking it to it’s conclusion—if war is a “racket” then supposedly fighting the Nazis would also be a “racket”.

Considering the OP is a conspiracy theorist, pointing out the glaring flaws in his case is rather amusing.

You assumed that the statement applied to all wars. It was instead a headline referring to the war in Afghanistan, as the article quoted made clear. You ignored the actual post and went with WWII instead.

 

[Tigerace117]

You assumed that the statement applied to all wars. It was instead a headline referring to the war in Afghanistan, as the article quoted made clear. You ignored the actual post and went with WWII instead.

Afghanistan, where we are fighting a psychotic regime which attacks little girls for daring to go to school, isn’t a “racket” either.

 

[dave8383]

For certain involved parties wars are a racket, but that doesn't mean the wars themselves are nothing but a racket.

 

[swing_voter]

Sounds like conspiracy BS.

 

[Felis Leo]

You assumed that the statement applied to all wars. It was instead a headline referring to the war in Afghanistan, as the article quoted made clear. You ignored the actual post and went with WWII instead.

The title is not "The War in Afghanistan is a Racket." It was "War is a Racket," which refers to the booklet written by Marine Corps veteran and noted conspiracy theorist Smedley Butler. A pretty categorical statement in my estimation.

 

[Irredentist]

Afghanistan, where we are fighting a psychotic regime which attacks little girls for daring to go to school, isn’t a “racket” either.

Has our war successfully made it safe for girls in Afghanistan to go to school? No? Sounds like a racket to me.

Maybe one day foreigners will stop trying and failing to impose their will upon Afghanistan.

 

[Irredentist]

The title is not "The War in Afghanistan is a Racket." It was "War is a Racket," which refers to the booklet written by Marine Corps veteran and noted conspiracy theorist Smedley Butler. A pretty categorical statement in my estimation.

War is always fought to profit somebody, somehow. But it's usually not the people who are fighting and dying. I call that a racket.

 

[munkle]

“War is a Racket”

Not “Gee, Some Wars are A-Okay but gee, some aren’t so good”

No, “War is a Racket” is a pretty explicit, and absolutist, theory.

I’m just taking it to it’s conclusion—if war is a “racket” then supposedly fighting the Nazis would also be a “racket”.

Considering the OP is a conspiracy theorist, pointing out the glaring flaws in his case is rather amusing.

Is it just a conspiracy theory that US bankers supported both sides during WWII, including George W. Bush's grandpappy Sen. Prescott Bush supporting Hitler's rise to power? Everyone loses in a war excepts bankers and war contractors. They always win.

As for conspiracy theories, you must be one of the remaining 10 percent who thinks Epstein really killed himself as the government tells you, so you won't be called a conspiracy theorist.

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power | World news | The Guardian

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

 

[Praxas]

Afghanistan, where we are fighting a psychotic regime which attacks little girls for daring to go to school, isn’t a “racket” either.

They do the same in Africa too are you supportive of the US being there too? When are you going to sign up to fight in the war you cheer on?

 

[Jetboogieman]

Afghanistan, where we are fighting a psychotic regime which attacks little girls for daring to go to school, isn’t a “racket” either.

That’s not why you are fighting in Afghanistan, otherwise you’d invade every “psychotic regime”.

Don’t be ludicrous.

 

[Tigerace117]

They do the same in Africa too are you supportive of the US being there too? When are you going to sign up to fight in the war you cheer on?

Yes, I am supportive of helping African nations fight against terrorist thugs who machine gun little kids.

Once I graduate from school. I was going to go in before college but every marine I talked to said to go to college first.

 

[Tigerace117]

That’s not why you are fighting in Afghanistan, otherwise you’d invade every “psychotic regime”.

Don’t be ludicrous.

We absolutely are fighting to help the Afghan government hold off the psychotic thugs of the Taliban.

The shrieks of horror from Europe and Canada if the US did topple the rest of the anti American thugs who continue to cling to power would certainly be a sight to behold.

After all, thugs like Gaddafi and Che(who wasn’t a dictator, but is close enough) are held up as folk heroes by the ignorant.

And the Cuban regime, which has a long history of its own “imperialist” adventures, has certainly benefited from their aid.

 

[Jetboogieman]

We absolutely are fighting to help the Afghan government hold off the psychotic thugs of the Taliban.

You can't beat them and your government has been trying to negotiate with them for years to try to bring an end to the conflict precisely for that reason.

That outcome, if it were to ever occur would likely mean the Taliban would have seats in parliament, maybe semi-autonomy for the regions they control and would continue to do what they've always done free of hindrance.

Get. Real.

The advancement of the rights of women and girls is about as ancillary a concern for the United States in the region as could be and it happening is merely a happy coincidence.

America, most of the time does not act with human rights as a concern.

 

[Tigerace117]

Has our war successfully made it safe for girls in Afghanistan to go to school? No? Sounds like a racket to me.

Maybe one day foreigners will stop trying and failing to impose their will upon Afghanistan.

It’s made it one hell of a lot safer than it was—- not that they could do it at all under the Taliban.

Maybe one day westerners will stop pretending psychotic gangs of thugs represent legitimate governments simply because said gangs of thugs are anti Western

 

[ecofarm]

We absolutely are fighting to help the Afghan government hold off the psychotic thugs of the Taliban.

The shrieks of horror from Europe and Canada if the US did topple the rest of the anti American thugs who continue to cling to power would certainly be a sight to behold.

In the end, the war against terror in Afghanistan will be won by the women of Afghanistan having been empowered by the free world.

 

[Tigerace117]

You can't beat them and your government has been trying to negotiate with them for years to try to bring an end to the conflict precisely for that reason.

That outcome, if it were to ever occur would likely mean the Taliban would have seats in parliament, maybe semi-autonomy for the regions they control and would continue to do what they've always done free of hindrance.

Get. Real.

The advancement of the rights of women and girls is about as ancillary a concern for the United States in the region as could be and it happening is merely a happy coincidence.

America, most of the time does not act with human rights as a concern.

The fact that they’ve been beaten on numerous occasions says otherwise.

The fact that they’ve been out of power without any hope of regaining it for almost two decades now, again, says otherwise.

Yeah, I’m going to need your source for the claim that the Taliban will be allowed to continue launching terrorist attacks “free of hindrance”.

 

[Irredentist]

It’s made it one hell of a lot safer than it was—- not that they could do it at all under the Taliban.

Maybe one day westerners will stop pretending psychotic gangs of thugs represent legitimate governments simply because said gangs of thugs are anti Western

What makes a "legitimate" gang of thugs preferable to an illegitimate one?

 

[Tigerace117]

What makes a "legitimate" gang of thugs preferable to an illegitimate one?

What makes you think stopping people from machine gunning little girls for going to school is a “imposition”?

 

[Jetboogieman]

The fact that they’ve been beaten on numerous occasions says otherwise.

The fact that they’ve been out of power without any hope of regaining it for almost two decades now, again, says otherwise.

Yeah, I’m going to need your source for the claim that the Taliban will be allowed to continue launching terrorist attacks “free of hindrance”.

I meant the way they treat women.

And no hope of regaining power... We all know without US backing the Afghan Government could very well collapse quickly, it's forces are poorly motivated, lead and everyone in charge is corrupt, of course there's hope they can regain power, who are you kidding?

 

[Rexedgar]

I meant the way they treat women.

And no hope of regaining power... We all know without US backing the __________ Government could very well collapse quickly, it's forces are poorly motivated, lead and everyone in charge is corrupt, of course there's hope they can regain power, who are you kidding?

Drop Afghan and you could be talking about Iraq, Vietnam or any one of a few Central American countries........