Israeli's request to purchase up to 210 million dollars in jet fuel

[Joanne98]

1 hour, 54 minutes ago


WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Pentagon notified Congress of an Israeli request to purchase up to 210 million dollars in JP-8 aviation jet fuel for its military aircraft.


"The jet fuel will be consumed while the aircraft is in use to keep peace and security in the region," the Pentagon's Defense Security and Cooperation Agency said.

The notice to Congress came two days after Israeli fighter jets attacked targets in Lebanon, including the international airport in Beirut, following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah guerrillas.

The Pentagon said the sale would help "improve the security of a friendly country which has been, and continues to be, an important force for stability and economic progress in the Middle East."

The US Congress has 30 days to act to block the sale; otherwise, it is automatically approved.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060714/pl_afp/mideastisraelus_060714213638

[mom cat]

1. It doesn't look like the jet fuel is being used for peace.

If Bush really wanted the war to stop, he could shut off the spigot.

[Joanne98]

4. That's what I was thinking....

[OwnedByFerrets]

2. If there is anyone

who thinks this will be denied.................well, you know the bridge I'm talkin bout.

[Joanne98]

5. The bridge to nowhere.

[madeline_con]

3. So, we send them the money to prop up their governement...

then, they turn around and use it "to keep peace and security in the region".

That's Pentagon Speak for "Kill more innocent people".

Come on! Let's git this rapture started!!!

[whistle]

6. U.S. should not ship them the jet fuel and this war would end pretty fast

[Junkdrawer]

7. Fly me to Iran and let me start a mideast war....

Let me kill my enemies like I've never done before...


I starting to get slap happy....

[still_one]

8. what do you think our country would do if missles were fired from Mexico

into the U.S.?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. Knowing gw..... we'd put up a fence. n't

[mtnester]

23. Or at least spout that we would

then not fund it.

[MindPilot]

10. Invade Greenland.

[KamaAina]

11. Of course we'd strike back, but would we beg Canada for jet fuel?

For that matter, would they sell it to us for that purpose?

[rzemanfl]

13. I'm sure we get our jet fuel from Canada already. n/t

[still_one]

17. and if the U.S. didn't give Israel the jet fuel, they would get it

from other sources

[still_one]

16. and if Israel didn't get the jet fuel from the U.S. they would

get it from someone else

[jaxx]

20. No, we'd borrow the money from China and then get the fuel.

[rzemanfl]

12. Name a new dish at Taco Bell after them? "Rockerterito?"

"Missilechunga?" "Projectileaco?"

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. What would we do if Canada sold them the rocket fuel?

[slackmaster]

18. My answer to that and most other questions today is always the same

"Invade Canada."

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. What we do if the Mexican Army started bulldozing our houses?

Or, if the Mexican Special Forces were to start assasinating our leaders?

Or, if Mexican artillery started bombarding Malibu?

[AlamoDemoc]

My thinking is that the congress will allow this to happen....

...Congres will likely use the supplemental spending bill that's likely to be passed early next year perhaps wrapped in with the cost of a war with Iraq and will likely be made as advance aid to Isreal. Who will stop it!

[Astrad]

15. Is anyone here naive enough

to think a democratic administration wouldn't sell them the jet fuel in this situation? Cause I got some swampland in the Keys...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

22. Unfortuantely, you're right.

And, throw in a few squadrons of used jets to burn it.

[adriennui]

19. if the US doesn't sell the fuel to israel

there are many other countries (yes, they are in the shadows) who will gladly do so.

you see politics makes such strange bedfellows especially when there is money to be made.

do you really believe the civilized world wants a powerful out of control islamist state becoming more powerful? i don't think so.

[ladjf]

24. We are Israel's gas station. Filler up boys and charge it to our

aid account.

[ladjf]

25. They should have checked their fuel guages before invading.