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Oil, Arms, Blood and Hypocrisy

Mike | 23.02.2011 14:32

Liam Fox, the British defence secretary, is reported in The Daily Mail (not a newspaper I normally read, but I received a tip on Facebook) as saying the UK needs a ‘healthy slice’ of this Middle East market. He went on to say 'I want to make sure the United Kingdom - within the limits that we set ourselves ethically on defence exports - is getting a healthy slice of that.’ Well, that depends on what kind of ethics you have, but I can’t see how any right minded person can justify selling the means of violent repression to undemocratic authoritarian regimes.

Read more  http://haringeygreens.blogspot.com/2011/02/oil-arms-blood-and-hypocrisy.html

Mike