George Bush to push $20bn Saudi arms deal

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$20,000,000,000 here, $20,000,000,000 there, and pretty soon Bush's corporate cronies are starting to make a real killing from the country who brought us the 9-11 hijackers and continues to fund radical madrasas.

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George Bush to push $20bn Saudi arms deal

By Carolynne Wheeler, Middle East Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 12/01/2008

US president George W. Bush is to promise $20 billion in advanced weaponry to Saudi Arabia as he travels through the Gulf states to garner support for further sanctions against Iran.

Yet even that gesture will not be enough to convince moderate Arab states to shun Iran, in a sign of its growing status as a Muslim world superpower.

The weapons deal, which is to include precision-guided missiles, first surfaced last autumn but was postponed over opposition in the US Congress.

Now the Bush administration is to notify Congress on Monday of its intent to conclude the deal, as Mr Bush lands in Riyadh.



George Bush and King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa

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to piss Bin Laden off again

19 of the hijackers came from.....Anybody willing to bet the weapons end up with Al Queda.....Is this Treason yet?

To put it rather crudely, but I think aptly, Bush is licking Saudi balls, as usual. Who needs porn when you have politicians?

we've got to sell them somewhere.

The advanced weapons to be built in China too. Then these Numb Nut Republicans will be wondering how China's military suddenly got just as good as ours.

http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery08062007.html

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So, together with the 20 billion deal with the Saudis, President Bush decreed that the American yearly grant of military assistance to Israel should be raised from 2.4 billion to 3 billion. This means that in the coming ten years, Israel will receive arms to the value of 30 billion dollars.

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likely support it.

he doesn't care two shits for our troops, money trumps everything remember

Damned irresponsible, if you ask me.

Let me get this straight, we pay for our own weapons, and we pay 100$ a barrel oil so the Saud's can have them too. Sweet. we pay for everything.

I only noticed it tuesday when they had it on the MSNBC scroll at the bottom of the screen and even after that, I didn't hear a another word about it on any news show.