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April 12,
2003
Welcome
Abord the Iraq Gravy Train
Let
the Corporate Looting Begin
by
TERRY JONES
Congratulations to all the winners of tickets
to take part in the greatest rebuilding show on earth
Terry Jones Sunday April 13, 2003 The
Observer
Well the war has been a huge success,
and I guess it's time for congratulations all round. And wow!
It's hard to know where to begin.
First, I'd like to congratulate Kellogg
Brown & Root (KBR) and the Bechtel Corporation, which are
the construction companies most likely to benefit from the reconstruction
of Iraq. Contracts in the region of $1 billion should soon coming
your way, chaps. Well done! And what with the US dropping 15,000
precision-guided munitions, 7,500 unguided bombs and 750 cruise
missiles on Iraq so far and with more to come, there's going
to be a lot of reconstruction. It looks like it could be a bonanza
year.
Of course, we all know that KBR is the
construction side of Halliburton, and it has been doing big business
with the military ever since the Second World War. Most recently,
it got the plum job of constructing the prison compound for terrorists
suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Could be a whole lot more deluxe
chicken coops coming your way in the next few months, guys. Stick
it to 'em.
I'd also like to add congratulations
to Dick Cheney, who was chief executive of Halliburton from 1995
to 2000, and who currently receives a cheque for $1 million a
year from his old company. I guess he may find there's a little
surprise bonus in there this year. Well done, Dick.
Congratulations, too, to former Secretary
of State, George Schultz. He's not only on the board of Bechtel,
he's also chairman of the advisory board of the Committee for
the Liberation of Iraq, a group with close ties to the White
House committed to reconstructing the Iraqi economy through war.
You're doing a grand job, George, and I'm sure material benefits
will be coming your way, as sure as the Devil lives in Texas.
Oh, before I forget, a big round of appreciation
for Jack Sheehan, a retired general who sits on the Defence Policy
Board which advises the Pentagon. He's a senior vice president
at Bechtel and one of the many members of the Defence Policy
Board with links to companies that make money out of defence
contracts. When I say 'make money' I'm not joking. Their companies
have benefited to the tune of $76bn just in the last year. Talk
about a gravy train. Well, Jack, you and your colleagues can
certainly look forward to a warm and joyous Christmas this year.
It;s been estimated that rebuilding Iraq
could cost anything from $25bn to $100bn and the great thing
is that the Iraqis will be paying for it themselves out of their
future oil revenues. What's more, President Bush will be able
to say, with a straight face, that they're using the money from
Iraqi oil to benefit the Iraqi people. 'We're going to use the
assets of the people of Iraq, especially their oil assets, to
benefit their people,' said Secretary of State Colin Powell,
and he looked really sincere. Yessir.
It's so neat it makes you want to run
out and buy shares in Fluor. As one of the world's biggest procurement
and construction companies, it recently hired Kenneth J. Oscar,
who, as acting assistant secretary of the army, took care of
the Pentagon's $35bn-a-year procurement budget. So there could
also be some nice extra business coming its way soon. Bully for
them.
But every celebration has its serious
side, and I should like to convey my condolences to all those
who have suffered so grievously in this war. Particularly American
Airlines, Qantas and Air Canada, and all other travel companies
which have seen their customers dwindle, as fear of terrorist
reprisals for what the US and Britain have done in Iraq begins
to bite.
My condolences also to all those British
companies which have been disappointed in their bid to share
in the bonanza that all this wonderful high-tech military firepower
has created. I know it must be frustrating and disheartening
for many of you, especially in the medical field, knowing there
are all those severed limbs, all that burnt flesh, all those
smashed skulls, broken bones, punctured spleens, ripped faces
and mangled children just crying out for your products.
You could be making a fortune out of
the drugs, serums and surgical hardware, and yet you have to
stand on the sidelines and watch as US drug companies make a
killing.
Well, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian President,
has some words of comfort for us all. As he recently pointed
out, this adventure by Bush and Blair will have created such
hatred throughout the Arab world, that 100 new bin Ladens will
have been created.
So all of us here in Britain, as well
as in America, shouldn't lose heart. Once the Arab world starts
to take its revenge, there should be enough reconstruction to
do at home to keep business thriving for some years to come.
Terry Jones was a member of Monty Python.
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