In Friday News Dump - Bush Pushes 6 Billion in Weapons Sales to Arabs.

[Ioo]

http://www.speciousreasoning.com/node/1395

We were digging around in the Friday News Dump, and look what we have found. The Bush administration has sold $4.1 to 6 billion in some of the finest United States military hardware we make to the Arabs. The benefactor of our military hardware, Abrams Battle Tanks and Apache helicopters to Saudi Arabia, and missiles and helicopters to Bahrain, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. Now please note that most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, and the money to fund the project was funneled through the United Arab Emirates. Great, we are egging on a total war in the region and we are arming as many people as we can!

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[babylonsister]

1. Then this will turn your stomach:

According to this, we're arming the insurgents who are killing our soldiers.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HG27Aa01.html

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But the latest and most interesting development on the small-arms front in Iraq was the news in May that the Pentagon has secretly shipped tens of thousands of small arms to Iraq from Bosnia-Herzegovina in the past two years, using a web of private companies. At least one supplier is a noted arms smuggler, Viktor Bout, blacklisted by Washington and the United Nations.

The US government arranged for delivery of at least 200,000 Kalashnikov machine-guns, together with tens of millions of rounds of ammunition, from Bosnia to Iraq in 2004-05, according to a report by Amnesty International, which investigated the sales. But though the weaponry was said to be for arming the fledgling Iraqi military, there is no evidence the guns reached their intended recipient.

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[Norquist Nemesis]

6. We needn't wake the President.

Why does this sound like Iran-Contra players reduxing. :grr:

[babylonsister]

7. Wake the prez? He probably authorized it, or Cheney. nt

[havocmom]

2. We have no diplomats working for the US now

We have sales and marketing reps for Arms Manufacturers.

Lord of War to the extreme is neocon policy.

[peacetalksforall]

3. We must start looking at the world in two ways. We need to take notice

of what goes on at the "leader" level and what goes on at the "people" level.

We are being deceived into thinking that countries are at war with each other.

Leaders are at war with each other and at trade with each other.

The people of the world are being taken. The duplicity and policy of the leaders is masked. And we suffer.

Best example: We are led to believe that Iran is oour major enemy, in front of Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, North Korea.

Dick Cheney is involved with selling to Iranian leaders. Our leaders have allowed certain nuclear sales with North Korea.

The leaders of Pakistan are our declared friends, but they house the former leader of the terrorists, provide a home for the world's major traffiker in nuclear technology and parts, allow training camps for terrorists, and probably play a major role in the sale and transfer of nuclear parts and drugs.

We are supposed to be friends with Jordan, but a criminal who cleaned out their bank is our chosen leader in Iraq - an oil minister no less - who appears to have given our secrets to Iran.

What does all of that have to do with the little people of Jordan and Iraq and the U.S.?

We are ALL being played for fools. We are played for our lives, bodies, money, non-dissent so that leaders can form partnerships, betray each other, and then live with the betrayals in new partnerships so that a few can make big bucks and progress on their agenda to use us while they proceed to control us.

Our military in this country works for the leaders and the corporations, not for us.

It is all being done for a consortium of military, corporate, reverends, the politicos who make it happen for the upper-upper barons. It is a grand army with batallions of those working to destroy the Constituion, the courts-legal system, and any form of accountability. It is all about control of the little people who are without borders all over the world - the little people and the earth resources under their feet. We are under assault.

[sweetheart]

12. well said

very progressive! :-)

[MadHound]

4. Of course Bushco is doing this

Standard practice, supply both sides in any war, and if no war is happening, press things so that one comes about. Standard practice for the merchants of death.

[mikeyj84]

5. Weapons Sales

Americas biggest and only export, a shame isn't it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bananas]

8. One more vote needed for the greatest page. nt

[mmonk]

9. We're number 1!

In weapons proliferation. We're not a country that seeks peace and solutions. We are a country that seeks exploitation of conflicts.

[leesa]

10. It's what makes our economy go...and Americans support it 100%

This is why our Congress approves of our wars, no matter how illegal or immoral, and why they will keep sparking these wars all over the world. We MUST keep selling these war toys.

[bdamomma]

13. is this what American taxpayers really want??????????????

[Skidmore]

11. This goes to Dobbs and KO.

Now what fresh terrorist network are we going to fund. Didn't learn a freaking thing from bin Laden, did we?