Posted on 09/14/2010 10:57:36 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
Barack Obama is to go ahead with plans to sell Saudi Arabia advanced aircraft and other weapons worth up to $60bn (£39bn), the biggest arms deal in US history, in a strategy of shoring up Gulf Arab allies to face any military threat from Iran.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the administration is also in talks with the Saudis about possible naval and missile-defence upgrades that could be worth tens of billions of dollars more over five to 10 years.
Plans to go ahead with the package, which has been under secret negotiation since 2007, have been known for some time and have raised angry objections from Iran and to a lesser extent from Israel, an even closer US ally which is anxious to maintain its strategic edge over any potential adversary in the Middle East.
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More treason - enemy of our best friend in the ME.
>This particular sale has been in the works since 2007.
Initiated by President Bush.
Saudi support is bipartisan.
And you don’t hear the Israelis complaining as in 1983 or so when their brought pressure to bear to spike the sale of an AWACS plane to Saudi by Reagan.
Just an hunch, but I bet a wooden pallet could not support than much gold.
That won’t be necessary. The Arabs won’t even be able to operate aircraft properly.
I am sure that all the hardware we have sold to other countries have back doors in them. And I am equally sure that the other countries work just as hard at finding those back doors and eliminating them.
Between the apaches and the f15s, boeing must be happy.
Now, Israel and jews who voted for Zero must be again at odd with themselves... this means a divided America and world.
Never so many idiots maintained by odd arts have had so much power... it’s like... dangerous.
“we’ve always been too worried that the Saudi royals might get replaced by something even worse.”
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It doesn’t get much worse than Wahhabism and underhanded terrorist financing, but I know what you mean- the saudis are too wealthy to be militant.
For those who don't like this deal the Europeans would be more than happy to take it off our hands.
Would concern me if Israel wasn't complaining about it. They will also share in some of the profits like they have for decades.
Do the math. He’s the buttboy of the Fraudi king..
In the 80’s the Saudis saved the fighter component of the British aerospace industry and helped the French too.
In the aftermath of the aborted AWACS deal, Maggie Thatcher and Mitterand picked up the slack and armed the Saudi airforce.
60 billion will buy a lot of aircraft, specially if you don’t require landing gear.
Did you ever see the movie Deterrence?
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