This should really make things better. (From Reuters)
U.S. plans big arms sale to Saudi Arabia
Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:30PM EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve arms sales totaling $20 billion over the next decade for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors, The New York Times reported in Saturday editions.
Coming as some U.S. officials
contend that the Saudi government is not helping the situation in Iraq, the proposal for advanced weapons for Saudi Arabia has stoked concern in Israel and among its U.S. backers, the Times said.Senior officials, including State Department and Pentagon officials who outlined the deals' terms, told the Times they thought the Bush administration had resolved those concerns, partly by offering Israel more than $30 billion in military aid over the next 10 years, which would be a significant increase over recent levels.
The sad thing is, the US congress will probably approve both sales in the interest of the US economy or "security".
Crapola . . . .
2 comments:
15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia and now this!
Yeah, I'm reading "Mission Not Accomplished" by Wm. W. Turner right now. Published in 2004, the part of the book I was just reading detailed the Saudi/ 9/11 connections. Then I read this news blurb . . . This country's leadership is woefully inadequate.*
*How's that for a restrained description?
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