Our beloved government leaders are so proud of their glorious victories on the battlefield in Iraq. The Iraqi army runs away and allows the U.S. created ISIS army to walk into Ramadi. But our glorious leaders feel the need to put out propaganda films of their Airforce destroying a fucking 10 year old pickup truck with a Brimstone missile.
A quick investigation reveals that one Brimstone missile costs $250,000. You can surely add another $25,000 for the cost of having the Tornado GR4s patrol the skies over Iraq. We are spending $275,000 to blow up one pickup truck that we can’t even prove is an enemy pickup truck, because we have no fucking idea who the enemy is.
But it doesn’t matter. MBDA (UK) Ltd, Lostock, the arms dealer who made that missile, will just produce another one driving up their profits and pumping up the UK economy. It’s all good. They’ll make a contribution to Cameron’s party and put him on their Board of Directors when he is done as Prime Minister. It’s the military industrial complex circle of life.
The UK Ministry of Defense released footage of airstrikes carried out on May 27, purportedly against positions of the self-proclaimed Islamic State in northern Iraq. The recording shows Tornado GR4s from RAF Akrotiri targeting an allegedly armed pick-up truck and destroying it using a Brimstone missile.
