Friday Bad-News Dump

From the Associated Press, by way of that notorious vehicle for liberal political propaganda, Forbes magazine, comes this account of harassment, intimidation, imprisonment and torture of American military personnel.... by the U.S. military.

Their crime? Trying to report and stop the black-market sale of US-supplied weapons to the Iraqi insurgents, who then use them to kill US troops. That's right. The US military, at the behest of the Bush Administration, is imprisoning and torturing US military personnel in order to protect Al Qaeda's black-market weapons sources.

Cui bono? Who benefits from pumping up the level of violence in Iraq, so that a stable government cannot be formed in the absence of the mailed fist of US troops? And who recieves the lucrative payoffs, not to mention the $8.8 billion in US funds that has inexplicably disappeared into someone's pockets en route to the so-called Iraq reconstruction effort?

Further discussion, along with further information about the utter corruption of the Bush Administration's war racket, available here and, no doubt, elsewhere.