U.S. to Designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard as TerroristsBy Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 14, 2007; 9:14 PM
The United States has decided to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country's 125,000-strong military branch, as a "specially designated global terrorist," according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washington to target the group's business operations and finances.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401662_pf.html---
But what about Saudi Arabia?
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Why Is the White House Pretending That Saudi Insurgents in Iraq Are Iranian?By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Posted on July 20, 2007, Printed on July 20, 2007
The Los Angeles Times is reporting nearly half of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops in Iraq have come from Saudi Arabia – one of Washington's closest allies in the Middle East. U.S. officials have so far refused to publicly criticize Saudi Arabia's role in Iraq, focusing instead on Iran. Democracy Now! spoke with an L.A. Times correspondent in Iraq, Ned Parker, and Toby Jones, a former Persian Gulf analyst with the International Crisis Group and history professor at Rutgers University.
http://www.alternet.org/story/57391---
Oh that's right...we reward them.
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U.S. Set to Offer Huge Arms Deal to Saudi ArabiaBy DAVID S. CLOUD
WASHINGTON, July 27 — The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/washington/28weapons.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1185626792-CMS88azv88xtDGRYzd7pvQ---
And to think that the Democrats took impeachment, "off the table".
GRRR...:banghead:
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