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Bomb Hewlett Packard!
Saturday, December 21st, 2002 10:46 pmNo, it's not because of the outrageous price of their ink cartridges. This report lists HP among 24 major US companies who helped Iraq develop its biological and nuclear weapons program. Now I'm used to British firms getting invlved in scandals like this (remember the Iraqi supergun?). We built an empire based on our God-given right to sell anything to anybody, and even fought a war to establish our right to sell opium to the Chinese. It's funny to see American firms supporting rogue states, though.
Having proved that the arguments the USA uses for declaring war on Iraq mean that it should also declare war on itself, it should be a simple matter to establish that America should bomb Hewlett Packard. One reason why Saddam is considered bombable is that he supposedly supports al-Qaeda. It follows that, by supporting Iraq, HP is also indirectly supporting al-Qaeda. Ipso facto, HP is a legitimate target. Of course HP could argue that while it helped Saddam develop weapons of mass destruction in the past, it no onger does so, but this argument did not help the Taliban when they claimed they were no longer sheltering Osama bin Laden, or even knew where he has.
In the mean time, I am working on transforming my DeskJet 640C from a thing that makes irritating noises and drinks ink by the pint into a weapon of mass destruction.
Having proved that the arguments the USA uses for declaring war on Iraq mean that it should also declare war on itself, it should be a simple matter to establish that America should bomb Hewlett Packard. One reason why Saddam is considered bombable is that he supposedly supports al-Qaeda. It follows that, by supporting Iraq, HP is also indirectly supporting al-Qaeda. Ipso facto, HP is a legitimate target. Of course HP could argue that while it helped Saddam develop weapons of mass destruction in the past, it no onger does so, but this argument did not help the Taliban when they claimed they were no longer sheltering Osama bin Laden, or even knew where he has.
In the mean time, I am working on transforming my DeskJet 640C from a thing that makes irritating noises and drinks ink by the pint into a weapon of mass destruction.
