Bush Keeps Israel Close, Saudi Arabia Closer

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Endless war from the "war president".

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Bush Keeps Israel Close, Saudi Arabia Closer
Posted on Jul 31, 2007
By Robert Scheer


Joining forces: George W. Bush clasps hands with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah (then crown prince) as the president welcomes him and his attendants to Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, in April 2005.



Go figure: From the White House comes the news that self-styled anti-terrorism crusader George Bush wants to sell $20 billion in high-tech military equipment to Saudi Arabia, the source of most of the financing, and 15 of the 19 hijackers, for the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks on the United States.

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Embarrassing facts undermining Bush’s insistence that Iraq is the key battleground in the war on terror are that al-Qaida, which was not allowed a presence in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, is now said by Bush to be behind the insurgency and that half of the foreign suicide bombers have been Saudi nationals. Why would the Saudis now move to stem the flow of terrorists across their border when Bush is rewarding them so handsomely for their past support of terrorism? After all, this administration has never demanded an accounting from the Saudis for the kingdom’s support of the Taliban government when it was coddling Saudi terrorist financer bin Laden. Nor has Bush’s camp ordered any serious examination of just how 15 Saudi “soldiers” were recruited, and provided with legitimate Saudi passports and American visas, to commit the mayhem for which the Iraqi people have been so severely punished.

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What a deal! The Saudis pony up billions in cash, American taxpayers come up with an amount more than twice as high to keep the Israelis and Egyptians happy, and U.S. war profiteers, Bush’s most reliable core constituency group, make out like bandits.

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FULL ARTICLE:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070731_scheer_saudi_arms_deal/

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