"America's Saudi Air War" - Al Jazeera English Article Exposes Split Between Freepers & Their Allies

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Too long and interesting to pick and choose 4 paras so click on the image below for the whole article (Freepers and other wingnuts quoted under the section called "Blowback mountain")

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/03/2011316131230188238.html">

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1. "We may think that we're arming this regime but it could wind up in four or five years we could have

"... ended up arming someone else," Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner recently told the Wall Street Journal.
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Ostensibly, we are "arming" the Saudis to counter Iran. Many in that country are not happy with the Saudi aristocrats and they want to depose them.

Remember how the Ayatollah Khomeni's revolutionary government got F-14s?

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2. The problem isn't who we'll be arming in the future, it's who we're arming now.

I have had serious issues with the arming of the Saudis since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Yamamah_arms_deal">Thatcher cut those massive deals with them, and seeing that they are now openly backing the http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=4776879">brutal crackdown in Bahrain, those worries are being proved correct.