As I was saying - from 1 of reichstag's chatsites.
Analysts say that a significant part of the American’s national life is determined by the financial interests of the "mighty 10."
The “mighty 10" are not the Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force or Special Forces; they’re huge arms firms that stand to make hundreds of billions of dollars from Bush’s ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of the "10" -- Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Litton, General Electric, United Technologies, TRW and Textron -- six are among the world’s top 10 arms-producing companies.
The Pentagon’s spending on the American President’s “battles against terror” in Iraq and Afghanistan is keeping U.S. defense contractors alive.
The fiscal 2006 defense budget is set to climb to US$441 billion, an increase of US$21 billion over this year. It envisions an additional US$50 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
