Ratheon & others need Iraq War contracts

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Tuesday August 30, 2005 01:49 by very persistent.

raytheon, best-known globally for military electronics and weapons systems, saw sales rise 8 % in the first half of the year to US$10.4 billion.
But raytheon (with an Irish operation) are small compared to Boeing (a partner to Ryanair) who had At the end of June, military orders of USS$85.7 billion.

Only 2 Arms companies of the US big ten of defence contractors presently engaged in the offence of Iraq.

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.

as Al Jazeera puts it these contracts are keeping the USA in dollars.
http://aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9432
Which will be used to rebuild the houricane damage no doubt.
There are better ways to spend dollars maybe.
http://aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9432