So did Taxpayers help foot the bill which not only destroyed the USS
Liberty but the USS Cole as well?
Is Schlumberger still around - big munitions dealers, and of course we
know the Mafia controls the munitions.......C-4 a plastic American Made
Explosive......used in Viet Nam?
Who really engineered near sinking of the USS Cole - we know what
happened to the Liberty.
Be interesting to find out a little more about the boat - the little was
it a motor boat like Israelies used to swarm about the USS Liberty while
planes attacked they used torpedos? What kind of a boat was this
really, and be assured, the FBI over in Yemen - remember the Flight 800
and pretty soon you will heara oh how much money we spend to investigate
the near assassination of this USS Cole and the murder of our military
aboard.
Blame Osama bin Laden? You got to be kidding. Egypt was to be blamed
for USS Liberty attack where 34 men died and 171 injured, while our men
while lying on deck were napalmed - note NAPALMED for over 45 minutes
and bombed by Israelie planes for which we paid and now we find
"subsidized" too? Little Israelie motor boats used to torpedo this
great ship and talk about coverup.
So the big show is in time for election only it would seem some of these
sadistic Mafia killers, Arafat and Ehud Barak aka Brug who dressed as a
woman to illegally enter Lebanon to murder years ago - it seems they
have lost control of the mob they indeed incited to riot?
Meanwhile Clinton is preparing for life in movies - all X Rated of
course. See the link between the secret police and literature ????
Gore is sicker than Clinton.
Saba
Eliminating Taxpayer Subsidies for Arms Sales
Top Ten Arms Export Subsidy Transparency Issues for the 106th Congress
Top Ten Arms Export Subsidy & Transparency Issues for 1998
ASMP REPORT: Recycled Weapons: American Exports of Surplus Arms
1998 Pentagon World Tour: Air Shows and Arms Bazaars
Pending Legislation to Reduce Arms Sales Subsidies
Top Ten Arms Export Subsidy & Transparency Issues for 1996
Project Publications on Arms Export Subsidies
U.S. arms corporations assiduously promote exports to maintain their
profits. (Publicly, of course, they talk about the need to maintain jobs
and the "defense industrial base.") These corporations are among the
largest in the world, and they have tremendous political influence. Arms
industry executives sit on federal advisory commissions at the Commerce,
Defense and State Departments dealing with arms export policy issues,
ensuring that their preferences are well known to administration
policymakers. In addition, the industry provides hundreds of thousands
of dollars annually to Congressional campaigns, ensuring that their
lobbyists have access to Members of the House and Senate. They also pump
cash into Presidential campaigns (usually to both sides, just to be
safe), ensuring access at the very highest levels.
Using this clout, arms exporters have arranged it so that the American
public pays $6-7 billion annually to market and finance sales of their
product. On top of that, the public bears the costs of researching and
developing the weapons in the first place. One of the corporate
lobbyists' top priorities in past years was to have Congress repeal a
statute which mandated that foreign customers be charged a fee to refund
U.S. taxpayers for some of the R&D costs. The arms industry claimed that
this fee�which has returned several hundred million dollars annually
to the Treasury�raises the price of the weapons and makes them less
competitive.
The Clinton administration and the Republican 104th Congress both
supported the repeal of this "recoupment" fee. The ASM Project fostered
citizen and Congressional opposition to this plan by publicizing it
widely through the media. However, in 1996, Congress effectively
abolished the requirement that Foreign Military Sales include
"recoupment fees" on weapons systems being exported around the world.
More information on Recoupment.
The arms industry lobby continues to press for new financing (or easing
of the regulations for current financing programs) to underwrite arms
sales. Information we obtained from the Pentagon allowed us to expose
the massive amount of outstanding military loans for which the U.S.
government is liable, and the amount of these loans which are currently
in default. More information on the recently created Defense Export Loan
Guarantee program.
Industry has (effectively, thus far) sought to paint these subsidies as
a matter of national security: If taxpayers don't subsidize arms sales,
the industry might lose a deal to a foreign competitor; this would lead
to the shutdown of a production line, thereby endangering America's very
security. Never explained is why America needs to maintain surplus arms
production lines in the first place. (If U.S. forces were still buying
the weapon system, loss of foreign sales would not affect the
continuation of the production line.)
Campaigning for Change: We continue to work to expose and oppose the use
of taxpayer funds to market and finance arms exports. In the coming
year, we will identify many of the constituencies that are being
negatively impacted in the current budget debate and educate them about
the extent to which public money is being expended to promote arms
exports. We will seek to activate them in opposition to such programs.
In addition, we will build a relationship with the conservative
taxpayer/good government groups and deficit hawks in Congress to
encourage them to oppose government funds for arms exports.
Recent Project Publications on Taxpayer Subsidies for Arms Exports
"Your tax dollars at work," Arms Sales Monitor No. 34 (30 April 1997)
"Your tax dollars at work," Arms Sales Monitor No. 33 (27 February 1997)
"Your tax dollars at work," Arms Sales Monitor No. 32 (5 March 1996)
"Your tax dollars at work," Arms Sales Monitor No. 31 (5 December 1995)
"Your tax dollars at work,"Arms Sales Monitor No. 30 (20 July 1995)
"Economic Cost of U.S. Arms Exports: Subsidies and Offsets ," testimony
before the Senate Appropriations Committee, 23 May 1995
"Should Congress repeal the tax on U.S. arms sales? " Washington Times,
24 April 1995
"GOP, Clinton push subsidies for arms sales ," The Sacramento Bee, 24
April 1995
"Abolish 'Corporate Welfare' for Manufacturers of Weapons ," Defense
News, 24-30 April 1995
"Congress Seeks to Repeal 'Recoupment' Fees, Provide New Break to Arms
Makers" and "Admin. Seeks over $6 Billion in Military Aid for FY
1996,"Arms Sales Monitor No. 29 (20 March 1995)
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