$20 Billion Arms Sale - Largest ever by the bush administration...

[cynatnite]

The Bush administration will announce next week a series of arms deals worth at least $20 billion to Saudi Arabia and five other oil-rich Persian Gulf states as well as new 10-year military aid packages to Israel and Egypt, a move to shore up allies in the Middle East and counter Iran's rising influence, U.S. officials said yesterday.

The arms deals, which include the sales of a variety of sophisticated weaponry, would be the largest negotiated by this administration. The military assistance agreements would provide $30 billion in new U.S. aid to Israel and $13 billion to Egypt over 10 years, the officials said. Both figures represent significant increases in military support.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072702454.html?hpid=topnews

[Faux pas]

1. Arming them better to fight against us. Wonder who gets the

money from the sales? :sarcasm: Raygun would be proud.

[EvilAL]

8. Arm them over there

so they don't have to kill us over here.

[Faux pas]

12. It's beyond crazy, for sure. My brain can't process too much

more insanity.

[Hippo_Tron]

2. Why do I get the feeling some of these weapons will land in the hands of Al Qaeda

Is it because Al Qaeda gets major backing from within Saudi Arabia? Hello, Bush Administration, Iran didn't attack us on 9/11! In fact they are natural enemies of the people that did attack us on 9/11.

[_testify_]

13. Stop making sense.

I mean it.

[NI4NI]

3. Throw more gas on the fire! Brilliant!

[flyarm]

4. but children in this country get cut medical coverage!! lovely!!arrrrr eom

[Tektonik]

5. YES!

That'll provide for some sweet big screen tv's in the green zone

[L. Coyote]

6. $43 billion in aid = $143 per American. What if I want to keep my share?

I had plans for that $143.

[RC]

7. Hey, gotta keep the "War on Terror" going.

I wonder where all this killing stuff is going to be/was made? Which country was it outsourced to?
I also wonder how much of this $20 billion is going toward such civilized death items as Cluster bombs, Land Mines, Napalm...

[onethatcares]

9. don't egypt and saudi both chop heads off

for small incidents?

[entanglement]

10. Q. What do the $30 bil. to Israel, $20 bil. sale to Saudi & $13 bil. to Egypt have in common?

A. The money will eventually come back to enrich military contractors like Lockheed and Raytheon in each case. All three nations will be bristling with even more weapons than they already have.

[terisan]

11. Bush and Cheney families making money on these sales? Bandar getting bribes as he did in England?

[Disturbed]

14. Death and Distruction is good business.

The MIC must be fed.

[leftofthedial]

15. they are arming their future protectors

[lpbk2713]

16. Wait till December 2008. He'll be granting Billions to Paraguay.

So they can defend the BushCo estate.