United Defense provides Combat Vehicle Systems, Fire Support, Combat Support Vehicle Systems, Weapons Delivery Systems, Amphibious Assault Vehicles and Combat Support Services. Some of United Defense's current programs include:

The Bradley Family of Fighting Vehicles, the M113 Family of Fighting Vehicles, the M88A2 Recovery Vehicle, the Grizzly, the M9 ACE, the Composite Armored Vehicle, the M6 Linebacker, the M4 Command and Control Vehicle, the Battle Command Vehicle, the Paladin, the Future Scout and Cavalry System, the Crusader, Electric Gun Technology/Pulse Power, Advanced Simulations and Training Systems, and Fleet Management. This list goes on and on, and includes virtually everything an eternal war might need.

Who owns United Defense? Why, the Carlyle Group, which bought United Defense in October of 1997. For those not in the know, the Carlyle Group is a private global investment firm. Carlyle is the 11th largest defense contractor in the United States because of its ownership of companies making tanks, aircraft wings and other equipment. Carlyle has ownership stakes in 164 companies which generated $16 billion in revenues in the year 2000 alone. The Carlyle Group does not provide investment or other services to the general public.

Who works for the Carlyle Group? George Herbert Walker Bush works for the Carlyle Group, has been a senior consultant for Carlyle for some years now and sits on the Board of Directors. This company is profiting wildly from this war in Iraq, a tidy gift from son to father. But then Mr. Blair did a good turn for his fellow members in the PM club as well, who also work for the Carlyle Group - Mrs. Thatcher & Mr. Majors. Add to their payroll Mr. Baker, chief council during the 2000 Republican theft of the White House, former under bosses from the Reagan/Bush era, and Osama's brother Saleem, and you have the equivalent of an umbrella factory being able to make it rain.

And then, of course, there is Dick Cheney's Halliburton, profiting in the millions from the oil in Iraq. Halliburton subsidiary, Brown & Root, is also in Iraq. Their stock in trade is the building of permanent military bases. Here is your permanent military presence in Iraq, and all for an incredible fee. Cheney still draws a one million dollar annual check from Halliburton, what they call a 'deferred retirement benefit.' In the real world, it's called a paycheck.

Anybody notice the amount of Military deaths attributed to vehicular accidents in this war? No? You mean with all the news coverage? What news coverage you say? .............EXACTLY

Does anyone have the vehicle makes involved in all the deaths?

Isn't there a conflict of interest here somewhere?

Who works for the Carlyle Group? George Herbert Walker Bush works for the Carlyle Group, has been a senior consultant for Carlyle for some years now and sits on the Board of Directors. This company is profiting wildly from this war in Iraq, a tidy gift from son to father. But then Mr. Blair did a good turn for his fellow members in the PM club as well, who also work for the Carlyle Group - Mrs. Thatcher & Mr. Majors. Add to their payroll Mr. Baker, chief council during the 2000 Republican theft of the White House, former under bosses from the Reagan/Bush era, and Osama's brother Saleem, and you have the equivalent of an umbrella factory being able to make it rain.

Nicely thought out, BT. I agree, things have been set in motion for a reason, and it boils down to the international dollar. Everyone is profiting like mad, except the average US citizen (even those employed by US Govt).

Almost makes you wish that voting actually mattered....