The day after my blog post
about the military-industrial complex, which guides US foreign policy, this article appeared.
DHB, which specialized in making body armor used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, paid for more than $6 million in personal expenses on behalf of Mr. Brooks, covering items as expensive as luxury cars and as prosaic as party invitations, pornographic videos for his son, plastic surgery for his wife, a burial plot for his mother, prostitutes for his employees, and, for him, a $100,000 American-flag belt buckle encrusted with rubies, sapphires and diamonds.
The expense-account abuse, the prosecution has said, represented a pittance compared with the $190 million that Mr. Brooks and another top employee are accused of making through a stock fraud scheme in which he falsified information about his company’s performance — including significantly overstating the inventory of bulletproof vests — to inflate the price of the stock before selling his shares in 2004.
The expense-account abuse, the prosecution has said, represented a pittance compared with the $190 million that Mr. Brooks and another top employee are accused of making through a stock fraud scheme in which he falsified information about his company’s performance — including significantly overstating the inventory of bulletproof vests — to inflate the price of the stock before selling his shares in 2004.
Body armor, just one of thousands of 'necessary' products when you send soldiers half way around the planet to fight a war with only one purpose. To enrich the suppliers and give the military a reason to keep growing. It also makes it easier to recruit soldiers when you wreck the economy and there's no other jobs...
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Remember, "Wise men change their minds, fools never do."
sourse(s). What a joke. In the meantime more are killed on both sides. Why not pull out and "remove" the country from the face of the earth. That'll solve the problem permanently. Throw in Pakistan for a buck.