Get Rich Quick! Be a Pentagon Supplier!
So have you heard the one about the teen-aged arms dealer who is President and sole employee of his company? He is getting rich selling sub-standard, 40-year old arms to Afghan troops and other materials of sketchy quality to our own troops! AEY out of Miami Beach, under the leadership of a 19 year old former masseur, has racked-up more than a third of a billion dollars since 2004! Ok, dad helped a little, like making the little prince a 1% stake owner of the company, but not much more.
Yeah, since Bushie was in such a hurry for war and with experts like Darth Cheney and the Don Rubblesfeld in charge, why bother with details of competence or history in reliable arms procurement? Why bother with how you were going to supply and support troops adequately?
The IHT has a 6-page article on it here.
In purchasing munitions, the contractor has also worked with middlemen and a shell company on a federal list of entities suspected of illegal arms trafficking.
Moreover, tens of millions of the rifle and machine-gun cartridges were manufactured in China, making their procurement a possible violation of American law. The company's president, Efraim Diveroli, was also secretly recorded in a conversation that suggested corruption in his company's purchase of more than 100 million aging rounds in Albania, according to an audio file of the conversation.
Not much more to say...
Just add this to the filth of the Bush idiocy and hope some day, all will be told and our 'leaders' will be held... what's that favorite word of Bushie's, especially when speaking of, say teachers, or civil service employees? Oh, yeah, A C C O U N T A B L E.
But then, what a challenge to account for millions of transgressions, deaths, migrations, etc... Better to just make jokes about such things at the Annual Gridiron dinner and other press frolics, and such like....
Gotta go get the barf bag now.