NATO

  • NATO is dominated by the US
  • President of the “US committee to Expand NATO”, Bruce Jackson, was also the director of Lockheed/Martin.
  • US arms dealers Lockheed and Boeing spent $151 million in lobbying congress in 1997-98 to sell more F-16’s and F-18’s to NATO members.
  • 1996-1997 Congress appropriated $30 million in military aid and $647 million in loan guarantees, through the “Central European Defense Loan Fund” for the new NATO members to buy US arms.
  • Czech Republic bought $500 million in arms from US as part of the modernization of it’s military in order to qualify for NATO membership.
  • 1997 Bulgarian arms dealers along with Czech military tried to sell 5 anti stealth fighter systems to Iraq.
  • Before last expansion US arms dealers donate $32.3 million to congress races.
  • Senate passed a resolution in 1998 supporting decisions without consensus. Rumsfeld calls 1972 ABM treaty “ancient history”.
  • 57 major military complexes in Europe cost US $100 Billion a year. NATO is Obsolete
  • The cold war is over, the Soviet Union disbanded, so NATO is obsolete.
  • Missile defense systems and allies to station them are obsolete.
  • The EU is the premier organization in Europe and NATO is not needed.
  • Rumsfeld said the EU “rapid relations force” 60,000 would damage NATO cohesion
  • The NATO charter forbids using force in any manner not consistent with UN charter, which leaves the decision to the UN security council.
  • The EU is already sending a police force to Macedonia, Congo, and Afghanistan.
  • Core of NATO force is 62 ton US tanks that can’t be mobilized quickly.
  • CBO estimates last expansion will cost US $366.61 Million in hidden costs. NATO is Incompetent
  • 5,000 cluster bomblets of the 70,700 dropped, still cover Afghanistan.
  • Human Rights Watch says killings, kidnappings, rapes, protection racketeering, and other abuses are still widespread in Afghanistan.
  • The NATO ally, KLA killed more than 300 Serbs since the end of the Balkan war.
  • 30,000 of the Gypsy minority have been driven out of thier homes in Kosovo.
  • The NATO/KLA atrocities in Kosovo include bombing hospitals, bombing of Aleksinac, Klecka Serb’s massacre and bodies burned in lime factory ovens.
  • Turkey used allies weapons to oppress the Kurdish minority in the mid 1990’s.
  • 31,000 rounds of depleted uranium were used in Kosovo and 18,000 in Bosnia. NATO Expansion is dangerous
  • Iraq obtained anti aircraft rockets and missiles from the Czech Republic in 2002.
  • Admitting Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania constitute a threat to US-Russian relations.
  • Not admitting Russia, Belarus, and Estonia threatens democratization there.
  • Slovakia continues to sell arms to Angola in violation of UN sanctions.
  • In 2000, 26% of Rumanian arms sales were to African countries.
  • Czech Republic sold tanks to Yemen in 2000.
  • Czech Republic was caught by customs shipping arms to Eritrea in 2001.
  • Bulgaria sold tanks to Angola, Ethiopia, Chad, and Uganda after joining NATO.
  • Poland continues to sell tanks to Yemen. Missile Defense
  • Abandonment of the ABM and SALT III treaties will start another arms race.
  • There is no missile threat that could be resolved by the proposed system.
  • The feasibility study by SAIC and Lockheed Martin is a conflict of interest.
  • Placing “defensive” missiles in Turkey is how the Cuban missile crises started.

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