[Gideon Reader]

I personally do NOT find it hard to believe.
The U.S. understands that the Olmert/Peretz/Livni(Kadima Party)is highly UN-reliable and not to be trusted with anything the U.S.does NOT want to see sold to China for the personal enrichment of the above named polititurds.

It is NOT Israel that the Bush administration has a beef with, but it's incompetent and personally corrupt leadership.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

you may well be right......check out the "MANPADS" fuss in Sec 11 and 12 of the legislation...

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:4:./temp/~c1096lvZvb::

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definitions
(5) MANPADS- The term `MANPADS' means--

(A) a surface-to-air missile system designed to be man-portable and carried and fired by a single individual; or

(B) any other surface-to-air missile system designed to be operated and fired by more than one individual acting as a crew and portable by several individuals.

SEC. 13. ADDITIONAL AUTHORITIES.

(a) War Reserves Stockpile-

[grey_whiskers]

I personally do NOT find it hard to believe. The U.S. understands that the Olmert/Peretz/Livni(Kadima Party)is highly UN-reliable and not to be trusted with anything the U.S.does NOT want to see sold to China for the personal enrichment of the above named polititurds.

You're right.

Think of Loral etc. during the Clinton Years.

By not transferring technology to Israel, Bush is just eliminating the middleman.

Bush 43 will serve the Clintons, like his father before him. (Star Wars quote).

Cheers!

...oh, and Merry Christmas!

[RobbyS]

I agree. My impression is that the administration was stunned by the way the war was conducted.