Promoting Peace Is For Wimps - Real Governments Sell Weapons

One answer is that it had some eminent salesmen. On July 2, 2005, Tony Blair secretly landed in Riyadh to persuade the Saudi princes that this flying scrapheap was the must-have accessory for every fashionable young despot. Three weeks later the defence secretary John Reid turned up to deploy his subtle charms. Somehow the deal survived, and last week his successor, Des Browne, signed the agreement. All of which raises a second question. Why are government ministers, even Blair himself, prepared to reduce themselves to hawkers on behalf of arms merchants? (There are two sources i found: Monbiot.com http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewstory.php?storyid=6979 )

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