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Saudis ask U.S. for price quotes for warships
Reuters ^ | April 09, 2011 | Jim Wolf

Posted on 04/08/2011 10:03:32 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

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1 posted on 04/08/2011 10:03:35 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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2 posted on 04/08/2011 10:04:14 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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We’re going to be fighting the Saudis one of these decades.
And they’ll be using our weapons we sold them against us.


3 posted on 04/08/2011 10:06:50 PM PDT by Aroostook25
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There are some advantages to being the arms supplier. 1. You know all the technical details including weaknesses. 2. You can build in weaknesses if you need to exploit them. 3. You have those of whom you supplied by the short hairs if they want to keep their purchases in working order.


4 posted on 04/08/2011 10:08:26 PM PDT by mnehring
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Make sure what ever they are sold have kill or shut off switches. Then I don’t have a problem. Lets screw them for a change.


5 posted on 04/08/2011 10:09:17 PM PDT by Wiggins
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To: Aroostook25

As long as they fight Iran first.


6 posted on 04/08/2011 10:10:36 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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...we should be charging rental fees as it is ....

HERTZ strike force rental- ("dirty deeds done dirt cheap")[/sarcasm]

7 posted on 04/08/2011 10:12:13 PM PDT by KTM rider ( patriot turned rebel)
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It never ceases to amaze me how we give billions of dollars of military hardware to a country that produced most of the 911 hijackers, finances schools that preach hatred of Christians and Jews, wants to establish an international Muslim caliphate, wants to finance a victory mosque at Ground Zero, interferes in our media by owning a large chunk of it, arrests women for driving, and forbids visitors from even carrying a personal bible with them for personal use.

The elite political class in this country is mentally ill.


8 posted on 04/08/2011 10:13:43 PM PDT by radpolis (Liberals: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy)
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Saudis ask U.S. for price quotes for warships.

Price,all of your OIL and GOLD.


9 posted on 04/08/2011 10:15:41 PM PDT by taxtruth (Don't end the fed,jail the fed!)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Hell, 0bama would sell the whole US Navy to them if he could.


10 posted on 04/08/2011 10:19:18 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Aroostook25

the ‘bammers is making deals isn’t he?


11 posted on 04/08/2011 10:28:43 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (I am keeping the faith, I have not finished my course and I am fighting for the good)
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i forgot to add this- for the coming invasion and the muzzification of the US unless the Chi-coms get to us first thru Alaska........ then they will go door to door ; death by gunshot :)

sorry about my post just my irrational fear


12 posted on 04/08/2011 10:31:49 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (I am keeping the faith, I have not finished my course and I am fighting for the good)
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To: Aroostook25
We’re going to be fighting the Saudis one of these decades. And they’ll be using our weapons we sold them against us.

I started to think that too, but based on the rest of the Middle East war tactics.......they park their tactical vehicles against apartment houses and hide behind women's skirts..........

13 posted on 04/08/2011 10:42:33 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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Don’t mistaken the Saudis’ for another country in the same AO; they pay hard cash for all their arms….


14 posted on 04/08/2011 11:17:35 PM PDT by AH-1S Pilot
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Bam Bam bowing to his masters again?


15 posted on 04/08/2011 11:51:10 PM PDT by Wildbill22
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It will be deja vu; it already happened in Iraq. US troops fighting Iraqis armed with weapons we gave them to fight Iran...


16 posted on 04/09/2011 4:52:01 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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I wish the goobermint were that smart. Why wasn't a self destruct mechanism built into Iranian F-14’s?
17 posted on 04/09/2011 4:56:30 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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“It never ceases to amaze me how we give billions of dollars of military hardware to a country that produced most of the 911 hijackers, finances schools that preach hatred of Christians and Jews, wants to establish an international Muslim caliphate, wants to finance a victory mosque at Ground Zero, interferes in our media by owning a large chunk of it, arrests women for driving, and forbids visitors from even carrying a personal bible with them for personal use.”

Anarchists are right in their assertion that no government should be trusted; this is an example of why. It should also be noted that the Saudis probably won’t be using any of this stuff; the average Saudi doesn’t work. They tried a program called “Saudization” to lessen their reliance on foreign workers (not just Bengalis & Indians for manual stuff, but also Westerners as engineers, etc.); I’ve never heard that the program was successful. One of the reasons Kuwait fell in one day was that they don’t work, either; in fact, they were brutal in their treatment of their “guest workers” because they hadn’t fought hard enough (if at all)to defend Kuwait against Iraq. I guess all of their imported domestic help was unknowingly enlisted in the Home Guard; they keep a short leash on those workers because of their numbers in comparison to the number of actual Kuwaitis.

For too long the US has allied itself with the Arabs that don’t work; there are many more Arabs in the world that do work.


18 posted on 04/09/2011 4:58:41 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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You are wrong.

The fight will be against Iran. To fight people on the Arabian Peninsula means they have already been conquered by Iran.

Iran, not Islam, is the enemy.


19 posted on 04/09/2011 5:02:35 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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What our Navy is now a sales team for the Saudis?


20 posted on 04/09/2011 5:18:13 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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