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US offers HUGE arms (weapons!) deal to Saudi Arabia: Great Idea, Huh?

DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
edited July 2007 in A Moving Train
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/washington/28weapons.html

Yes
GENIUS.

Just what we need.
Massive amounts of modern weapons in the middle east.

Keep arming them Bush, and you will get your wish of all out global war on an unprecedented scale.

Yes, your stocks & pockets will rise and fill and hitherto unimagined rate.

Go war machine, go!
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I give up.
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/washington/28weapons.html

    Yes
    GENIUS.

    Just what we need.
    Massive amounts of modern weapons in the middle east.

    Keep arming them Bush, and you will get your wish of all out global war on an unprecedented scale.

    Yes, your stocks & pockets will rise and fill and hitherto unimagined rate.

    Go war machine, go!
    ...
    Since Iran is arming the Shi'ia militias in Iraq... someone needs to arm the Sunni insurgents over there, don't they?
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Yeah sure and where does it end. Oh I forgot the Saudi's and THAT Carlyle Group are buddies. Odd how a majority of 9/II attackers were from Saudi Arabia yet we chose not to invade that country. Odd Isn't it???

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  • Uncle LeoUncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    Generally when we provide arms to a middle eastern country we can count on them being our friends forever.
    I cannot come up with a new sig till I get this egg off my face.
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Oh goody, now that we're buddies, I hope they can guard our ports for us.
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  • CorporateWhoreCorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    Selling weapons to the enemy.
    All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.
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  • beachdwellerbeachdweller Posts: 1,532
    seems like the right thing to do if you plan on continuing to be contolled by Oil
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Just when you though it couldn't get any more ridiculous

    Bush brings us stupid on steroids...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    we fund terrorists in Israel, why not the Saudis?
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Why play Russian roulette with only one bullet? ...sigh..
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Why play Russian roulette with only one bullet? ...sigh..

    Stupid is as Stupid does

    Peace
    Earle
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • WMAWMA Posts: 175
    Uncle Leo wrote:
    Generally when we provide arms to a middle eastern country we can count on them being our friends forever.

    Like bin laden and iraq right? ;)
  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,561
    Its suprising the amount of people who dont know
  • TruthmongerTruthmonger Posts: 559
    But it must be a reward for Saudi Arabia's sterling human rights record. Who cares if they've beheaded 102 people so far this year, right ?!
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Truthmonger wrote:
    But it must be a reward for Saudi Arabia's sterling human rights record. Who cares if they've beheaded 102 people so far this year, right ?!

    Don;t like Saudi Arabia I take it.

    What was it that you didn't like when you were there and how long were you there for?
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • TruthmongerTruthmonger Posts: 559
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Don;t like Saudi Arabia I take it.

    What was it that you didn't like when you were there and how long were you there for?

    What does my presence in said country have to do with it ? There's this new thing called reading, you should check it out. It saves people from having to travel 10,000 miles in order to verify simple facts.
  • Uncle LeoUncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    WMA wrote:
    Like bin laden and iraq right? ;)

    Yes. I was being sarcastic.
    I cannot come up with a new sig till I get this egg off my face.
  • THCTHC Posts: 525
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/washington/28weapons.html

    Yes
    GENIUS.

    Just what we need.
    Massive amounts of modern weapons in the middle east.

    Keep arming them Bush, and you will get your wish of all out global war on an unprecedented scale.

    Yes, your stocks & pockets will rise and fill and hitherto unimagined rate.

    Go war machine, go!

    This litterally makes me sick! I honestly have to say the biggest traitors this country has right now is the president and his administration. Possibly the biggest traitors in the history of this country. 17/21 terrorists on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia...and they are said to be one of the biggest groups of suicide bombers...and we are now arming them! What a fricken joke. These war mongers will get what's coming to them on the day they die....it won't be all roses and cash on that day!

    Why don't we sell them small planes and teach them how to fly them into buildings while we are at it...just to make sure we cover all our bases!
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  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    This is a perfect issue for a presidential candidate to jump on... This is actually an issue that should be over-politicized, and blown out of proportion in the media...

    of course it won't, there will be some stupid harmless debate comment argued about or another celebrity arrested instead.
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  • TruthmongerTruthmonger Posts: 559
    It doesn't matter how many arms are given to countries like Saudi Arabia. It only matters that the U.S./Israel have MORE arms. Its relative security. There's a reason Israel just got a new deal with the U.S. for military support of 3 Billion/Yr... Suddenly, Israel's opposition to a strong Saudi Arabia is OK.


    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070729/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_us_arms
  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    When you finally go into Saudi Arabia to rid them of one thing or another. Will your public still play stupid like they didn't know that the government gave them the stuff in the first place. :rolleyes:
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Truthmonger wrote:
    What does my presence in said country have to do with it ? There's this new thing called reading, you should check it out. It saves people from having to travel 10,000 miles in order to verify simple facts.

    But you choose to look at (and promote) the worst my friend, and site it as example ,and then make it out like I'm the one with issues. Wrong. Wrong. You sling crap... I call you on it.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • TruthmongerTruthmonger Posts: 559
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    But you choose to look at (and promote) the worst my friend, and site it as example ,and then make it out like I'm the one with issues. Wrong. Wrong. You sling crap... I call you on it.

    Well, ya, America's hypocrisy is pretty ugly sometimes. And don't ya think you're taking this a little too personally ?? Where exactly did my remarks ever point to you specifically ?? - or are you the kind of person who goes to a football game and thinks that a huddled team is talking about you ?
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Truthmonger wrote:
    Well, ya, America's hypocrisy is pretty ugly sometimes. And don't ya think you're taking this a little too personally ?? Where exactly did my remarks ever point to you specifically ?? - or are you the kind of person who goes to a football game and thinks that a huddled team is talking about you ?

    nice try at whatever it is that you're trying to imply. Demonizing the middle east I see...yup...ok.. have at it then. Spread the "truth"...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    You want to know what irony is?
    U.S. troops being killed by U.S. weapons that make their way to Iraq via Saudia Arabia.
    It'll happen... and I'm guessing it's already happening.
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  • TruthmongerTruthmonger Posts: 559
    Cosmo wrote:
    You want to know what irony is?
    U.S. troops being killed by U.S. weapons that make their way to Iraq via Saudia Arabia.
    It'll happen... and I'm guessing it's already happening.

    Its recently come to light that saudi arabia is probably already sending suicide bombers and other fighters to iraq to fight the americans. It raises the question as to why the U.S. is selling weapons to a country that is actually harming the U.S.. right now.

    Also, when is the U.S. going to learn......an ally today may be an enemy tomorrow. Especially when it comes to U.S. allegiances. So why have so many weapons floating around ????
  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    But you choose to look at (and promote) the worst my friend, and site it as example ,and then make it out like I'm the one with issues. Wrong. Wrong. You sling crap... I call you on it.


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    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
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