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SOMETHING FROM THE BOARD ROOM

SIMON WILLACE | 31.07.2004 05:47 | Analysis | Anti-militarism

THE 'Financial weekly' looks at war

WOULD YOU LIKE SHARES WITH THAT? HOSTILE TAKE-OVERS AND ASSET STRIPS ON RYE, THOUSANDS OUT OF WORK AM INC POSTS BETTER YEALDS TO COME...INVESTORS ARE COMFORTED BY THE NEWS.

History of war should be put into a more appropriate language so we can appreciate the reasons of conflict and what war is good for. This makes the whole subject more business like. Monetary terms can be employed; our nations second tongue could be an effective tool for this. Using financial terms to give a corporate style history of Middle Eastern conflict may seem farcical but it offers the opportunity to remove emotion from the dispossessed the unemployed and the bankrupt, this may enable us to understand the function of buisness.

Corporate American licence was granted for a regional business partner to take over and run Kuwait during July 1990. Market Concern grew in the region and spread elsewhere. AM inc were advised not to support the Hussein/Kuwait merger and prepared to purchace controling shares.
Sheik Laden offered the west a business plan designed as an alternative to US involvement and take over in the 1990 Gulf crises.
Sheik Laden, then a local contractor offered an Arab Army of traditional and well-known Rag-tag design to avoid western rough trade from entering Arab lands. In reply the House of Saud owned and operated by US interests was ordered to decline the offer suspending Laden in the world exchange.

The UN regulator prevented the transition of Iraqi management in 1991 spoiling AM Inc’s hostile take over bid, by placing Iraq into receivership and suspending its membership until independent investigations ware completed into its holdings and operations.
While the ‘take over’ was postponed for thirteen years Am INC remained speculative buyer, mindful that although the total asset worth of the prospect was being diminished its prime asset could make eventual purchase worth the bid expense.
In consequence Iraq’s poorly maintained securities became obsolete through lack of spare parts and maintenance reducing the viability of the corporation to its core concern which under restrictions could only generate sufficient income for the management to maintain essential servicing.
Before the Gulf War could resume Sheik Laden targeted US interests in order to reduce the assets of the corporation. Two US Embassy’s and the Pentagon fell while the battle ship US Cole was listed in stock standard military exchanges.
However the greatest achievement of US competition (to date) came during 911. The I.T. centre of the US stock market was conveniently housed as one egg in two baskets. The target had fewer potential innocent victims than any nation under US attack or any American football stadium. Therefore collateral carnage could be spared while maximum economic damage was done.

This single military surgical strike caused an immediate loss of $13 billion from the US economy and the ongoing recession that followed Clinton’s surplus years grew to a present 500 billion deficit.

Post 911 America INC resolved that UN interference would never be allowed to inhibit US growth again and challenged international law. The UN was bypassed first with the invasion of Afghanistan and its board of directors illegally squashed. There after Victory in Iraq became tactfully possible with the US 2002/3 sales campaign, which out bid the Co-op, privatising the war and deregulated conflict forever.

Three years since 911 America’s attackers are still being discounted as insane terrorist. Is the world served with bargain basement intelligence, or just clearance house news where workforces are scared into compliance by the companies own chosen news

The Singular US ambition throughout the 13-year American war was to control OPEC. It’s not just about the oil it is all about the money. The Gulf war has cost the lives of 2.8 million innocent people in Iraq alone (UN 2001 estimates to 2001) and terrorised millions more.
The American plan was to weaken Iraqi defences through war, sanctions, blockades and time. In order to occupy and ultimately flood the world market with its spoils of war, oil it could get nowhere else, oil, which has already weakened OPEC’s market share.

This went on behind the mask of benevolence and assisted democratisation lavishly spread about as a vision of a New World order.

Laden tried to spare us this nightmare, his fight has little support as he owns and operates no media; he is no super power but has never lied or sought power for himself, leaving credit for a succession of victories to those he represents.

America has not explained its reasons for permitting the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait when Iraq had disclose such plans at the US embassy in Bagdad during july1990 or for preventing Sheik Laden from liberating Kuwait. Therefore America is implicated as wilful co-ordinator in the Kuwaiti invasion and guilty of illegal acts of occupation since.

And if China had done this and not America, how would we be made to feel about Sheik Laden?

We would still be cheering him on. Just as we did when he fought those communists whose aim it was to invade Saudi Arabia and the entire Middle East.

The game has not changed just the fools who play it.

Thankyou for your time.


SIMON WILLACE

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