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Title: Obama and the Merchants of Death
Published: 2017-01-20
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWv9RRe23DA
Title: Obama and the Merchants of Death
Published: 2017-01-20
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWv9RRe23DA
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now that Obama is leaving office you're hearing a lot of chatter about from healthcare to LGBT and climate change Democrats and liberals her plotting Obama's long years as but they're saying little about his foreign policy track record and it's cozy relationship the merchants Obama was a blessing for the military industrial complex he broke all records he more than doubled the total spent during the bush admin2/39
duration well I was astonished researching the article that Obama it so this much I mean I know there are record deals with Saudis but to outsell the eight years of bush %HESITATION to sell more than any president since World War two it was surprising even to me folly since quite closely %HESITATION the majority sixty percent of gone to the Persian Gulf Middle East and within that3/39
the Saudis have been the largest recipient of things like US fighter planes Apache attack helicopters bombs guns almost an entire arsenal they've purchased just the last few years beginning in two thousand and nine Obama approved arms deals worth two hundred billion more than any other president since World War two most of the approved weapons are going to Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates really are Iraq4/39
in Israel Pentagon's defense security cooperation agency has estimated that it facilitated forty six billion in arms sales in two thousand and fifteen and more than forty billion in two thousand T. both Democrats and Republicans support the continuation of the global sale of arms Bill Clinton oversaw the export of sixty seven point three billion dollars worth of armament a full fifty five percent of global arms exports5/39
quadruple the share of the next closest competitor in nineteen ninety seven United States sold arms are provided military training to twenty one of twenty four countries engaged in a major armed com at that time this reversed the trend in arms sales reduction started in nineteen eighties after more than a decade of the Nixon doctrine when weapons sales were used by the United States fluids foreign governments6/39
the Nixon doctrine open the floodgates of military sales and eighteen U. S. allies in the Persian Gulf although Jimmy Carter said during his campaign in nineteen seventy six he would cut military spending and reduce arms sales increased in nineteen seventy nine he laid out a policy that push defense spending over two hundred billion within five years the George W. bush administration continued escalating arms sales when7/39
he first took office bush appointed thirty two executives pay consultants and major shareholders of weapons cache tractors top policy making positions in the Pentagon national Kyrie council and state the contracts in the Pentagon's top ten contractors jumped from forty six billion in two thousand eleven eighty billion in two thousand an increase of nearly seventy five Halliburton's contract jumped more than nine times their two thousand and8/39
one levels two thousand and three four hundred million point nine billion Northrop Grumman's contracts doubled from five point two billion two eleven point one billion the nation's largest weapons contractor Lockheed Martin saw fifty percent increase from fourteen point seven billion to twenty one point nine billion in two thousand eight during his first visit to Saudi Arabia bush announced an arms deal worth twenty billion dollars the9/39
package included so called smart bombs in J. dams our joint direct attack munitions two thousand and it was the last time the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia was less than one billion dollars in the total value of US arms sales delivered to Saudi Arabia from thousand and now thousand and fourteen thirteen billion dollars the largest of any country in the world during that time period10/39
during his eight years in office Obama planned to sell a hundred and fifteen billion dollars worth of weapons Saudi Arabia US president Barack Obama's administration has so far offered Saudi Arabia over a hundred and fifteen billion dollars in arms and military training according to reports by U. S. based think tank the center for international policy the weapons offers are the largest any US government has ever11/39
made during the seventy one year U. S. set with the alliance he offers have been made to Saudi Arabia since Obama took office in January two thousand nine they include a broad range of weaponry including tanks attack helicopters air to ground missiles missile defense ships and warships the Saudis requested the sale to replenish its stockpile depleted during the illegal war sale included a variety putting more12/39
than a high and one A. two Abrams battle tanks sales to the Saudis over the span of Obama's time in office include combat aircraft attack helicopters bombs air to ground missiles warships and military training the defense contractor Northrop Grumman cashed in on the deal it received four billion from the Saudis for a train and equip program for the Saudi Arabian National Guard played a key role13/39
in the Yemeni intervention the Senate was fully on board with the sale despite human rights violations by the Saudis in Yemen voted seventy one to twenty seven against a resolution to block the sale the bill was introduced by Kentucky Republican senator rand Paul and Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut every other attacks by the Saudi led coalition have ordered the course immense of carnage and destroyed much14/39
of the country's medical facilities and are the vital civilian infrastructure till now we audit facing a situation where up by many reports of film amnesty and Human Rights Watch and and Oxfam we are dealing in Yemen with that catastrophic humanitarian situation that I eighteen and percent of human population are in need of humanitarian assistance Saudi led effort to destroy Shia who the rebels in Yemen with15/39
US weapons have so far result ten thousand three hundred seventy thousand children malnourished and ten thousand more data preventable disease nearly three million Yemenis have been displaced from their homes in August the death toll was so high the international committee of the red cross the unusual step of donating entire Morg units Yemeni house the same month doctors without borders announced it would leave the country after16/39
the Saudis bond hospitals what about them is that this is a trend of that so that the disk is happening %HESITATION war I'm walking in the last song on the last few months and that son that Sunday evening maker medicalization medical and maintain assistance him into giving us and other countries I mean I or listen closely Saudi led coalition has also routinely bond market places in17/39
funeral homes in October the Saudis used a U. S. manufactured five hundred pound bomb on a funeral procession killing a hundred and fifty people and moving over five hundred they gathered at Synar's out cultural hold for a funeral but in Yemen even those who moan fineness a Saudi led coalition air strike pull through this place to many of those inside there was no escape scale of18/39
casualties has left Yemen in shock in two thousand and fifteen Obama said the U. S. could provide logistical and intelligence support to the Saudis it also began aerial refueling of Saudi aircraft Human Rights Watch said evidence shows the Saudis are using U. S. supplied cluster bombs that are outlawed in much the world the cluster bombs are manufactured by Textron systems in Wilmington Massachusetts despite the slaughter19/39
in Yemen US continues to sell weapons to Saudi coalition partners December in the department of defense approved the sale of helicopters and missiles to the United Arab Emirates and Morocco United Arab Emirates in the Obama administration shipped illegal weapons to jihadists in Libya during a NATO war to overthrow and murder get a leaked email revealed a senior American diplomat leading his country violated the United purity20/39
council resolution Libya you AE spent billions of dollars purchasing U. S. weapons in two thousand and thirteen it requested permission to buy guided bombs and cruise missiles it's airforce has bought Apache helicopters and F. sixteen fighter jets the country is work with Eric prince formerly of black water in two thousand and ten they teamed up to train in secret army of Columbia and south African mercenary21/39
outside the Middle East the Obama administration signed off on arms deals to a number of kind including Taiwan India South Korea and Vietnam it's the nineteen eighties the United States is sold billions of dollars worth of military equipment Correa sales include fighter jets aircraft spare parts in air to air missiles in December the Obama administration formally notified Congress of a one point billion dollar arm they'll22/39
pass Taiwan the U. S. just authorize this deal but Congress approved it more than a year ago the package includes two frigates antitank missiles amphibious assault vehicles and some other equipment as well well birds are China considers Taiwan a renegade province so and the US has just given it more weapons houses says vote for a US China relations do you has said that it's not changing23/39
what it calls its one China policy now that means that the U. S. will still not recognize Taiwan as an independent state but Obama approve the deal anyway because Washington does believe Taiwan should have a credible defense under a nearly forty year old act defines relations with authorities in Taipei the state department said Raytheon and Lockheed Martin the main contractors in the sales president Barack Obama24/39
announced Monday that the US is fully lifting that decades long ban on sales of illegal weapons to Vietnam the announcement is a big shift in US policy and comes after Obama began a three day visit to Vietnam last may during a trip to Vietnam Obama announced the lifting of a ban on the sale of belief full military equipment van was put into place in response to25/39
Vietnam's human rights record Vietnam stands accused of holding prominent political prisoners and be protests Vietnam argues it needs the weapons to defend itself against China in two thousand and fourteen China placed an oil rig in waters near the parcel islands which Vietnam claims the lifting of the embargo on Vietnam in the sale of weapons to Taiwan are likely to increase tensions in the disputed South China26/39
Sea in nineteen thirty four the knight commission also known as the special committee on investigation of the munitions held hearings to investigate financial and banking interests and the role they played in starting the first World War many Americans believe the U. S. entered the war at the behest of bankers and munitions industry the commission question more than two hundred witnesses including JPMorgan junior and Pierre dupont27/39
the Senate cut off funding in nineteen thirty six after nine I accuse the weight former president Woodrow Wilson of withholding essential information from Congress is it considered a declaration of war against although the commission failed to implicate bankers and munitions industry in a conspiracy to start the first World War for profit it did bolster the antiwar and anti interventionist movements at time the public's attitude towards28/39
Warren foreign intervention was reflected in a book written by Smedley Butler retired United States Marine Corps Major General and time medal of honor bother argues industrial subsidized by US taxpayers make large profits on war and human side deaf and calculated mass murder are good for business this principle is demonstrated in the nineteen eighties when the Reagan administration sold weapons to the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein Donald29/39
Rumsfeld traveled to Iraq to make sure the Iraqi dictator received what he needed in order to win a war between Iraq and Iran a war that would ultimately cost more than a million lives and did stalemate president Reagan sent Hussein a secret message saying the United States would support his effort in the war CIA director Casey wanted to give Saddam cluster bomb in nineteen eighty two30/39
reggae and legalize direct military sales to Iraq the Reagan and bush administrations subsequently signed off on more than one billion dollars in between nineteen eighty five and nineteen eighty nine the U. S. department of commerce licensed seventy biological exports to Iraq including at least twenty one batches of lethal strains of anthrax the French newspaper Le Figaro in an article published in nineteen ninety eight said researchers31/39
at the Rockville Maryland lab of the American culture collection from sending anthrax samples by mail order to our rock after the Gulf War Iraq told UN weapons inspectors about how they have weaponized anthrax sent to them by the American duration in nineteen eighty five the U. S. centers of disease control sent samples of an Israeli strain of west Nile virus to a microbiologist at the box32/39
where university in Iraq in addition Iraq received other various toxins and bacteria including botch lines and E. coli corporations that have sold dual use chemicals and biological samples to our rock for its weapons program include Phillips petroleum Unilever Colac allied signal the American type culture collection and Teledyne Teledyne pled guilty to charges of criminal conspiracy false statements and violations of the export administration act and the33/39
arms export control act for indirectly exporting a hundred thirty tons of Zen chromium Turek few Chilean arms manufacturer Carlos Karl Dan zirconium was intended for use in cluster bombs in defense Teledyne argued during the trial that the CIA had authorized to shipments George W. bush would later use Iraq's possession of these chemicals biological agents and munitions as evidence Saddam Hussein was a threat not only to34/39
his neighbors but also the United States and the world at large in two thousand and five the commission on intelligence capabilities of the United States regarding weapons of mass destruction reported that the intelligence community was dead wrong and it weapons of mass bush's invasion ultimately resulted in the deaths of more than a million and a merchants of death have reaped tremendous profits from the invasion of35/39
Iraq and Afghanistan and also the war on terror in two thousand the US defense budget was approximately three hundred twelve billion dollars by two thousand eleven the figure had grown to seven hundred and twelve billion Stockholm international peace research institute estimates that between two thousand and two in two thousand and eleven arms sales among the top one hundred companies grew by fifty one Obama has continued36/39
and expanded the war on terror the destruction of Libya to fueling the effort to take down basher almost sighed in Syria Lockheed Martin CEO Marilyn Hewson said in July the U. S. effort to exacerbate and spread conflict is good for business she said conflicts in both the Middle East and Asia would make them growth areas for the foreseeable future the new president will continue the process37/39
during the campaign trump promised to expand the military he suggested repealing the current defense sequester increasing the size of the army by more than half duty soldiers and also rebuilding the navy with the goal of three hundred feet providing the airforce with twelve hundred fighter jets building a missile defense system and emphasizing cyber warfare although trump is portrayed as an anti establishment politician when it comes38/39
to an obscenely bloated defense budget and continued goodies for the deaf merchants is a little different than its predecessors for just a small subscription fee you can become a member of the news but commute and help keep this website running your subscription will provide you with full community access to exclusive content Cloete videos and articles from news but it's team of experts in as well as