1.4 billion dollars in possible US arms sales to Mideast

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Source: AFP

1.4 billion dollars in possible US arms sales to Mideast announced

The Pentagon notified Congress Thursday of possible sales of missiles, armored vehicles and cargo aircraft upgrades worth nearly 1.4 billion dollars to four Mideast states.

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice earlier this year promoted a much larger package of arms sales to the region earlier this year as a means to counter Iran.

The biggest of the possible arms sales announced Thursday was to Saudi Arabia, which the Pentagon said wants to buy 61 light armored vehicles, and 50 Humvees along with assorted guns, machine guns and night vision goggles.

The Defense Security and Assistance Agency said the sale would be worth 631 million dollars.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071005/ts_afp/usmideastmilitaryweapons_071004223426

[mslawstudent]

1. Nice

We need the money and that stuff is #@#$

[soothsayer]

2. Well, the money stays here, doesn't it? we just pay US weapons makers, and ship the goods

to our pals over there for free

[damntexdem]

8. No wonder we can't afford SCHIP.

;-)

[MidwestTransplant]

3. We'll know the meaning of blowback.

[L. Coyote]

4. Also, $30 billion in military aid was announced recently.

Thats the part where the taxpayers pay for it, the corporations profit, and the Middle East wages wars.

[Hulk]

5. Wow...makes me proud. "Made in USA"....weapons...what a sad day it is when that's all we have......

It's a sad day when our major export to the world are tools of destruction. What a piss hole we have come to be.

[damntexdem]

9. 'Piss hole'? Why, when these weapons get used ...

more than piss will hit the proverbial fan.

[Javaman]

6. Just watch the first 10 minutes of the movie "lord of war". nt

[damntexdem]

7. It could have been $1.5 billion.

But instead Iraq is buying from China. ;-)