Posted on 06/13/2017 1:32:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Senate on Tuesday narrowly turned back a bipartisan bid to rebuke Saudi Arabia and reject President Donald Trump's plan to sell the kingdom more than $500 million in precision-guided munitions, sparing the new Republican administration an embarrassing defeat.
The vote Tuesday was 53-47, clearing the way for the sale to be finalized. The precision munitions are part of Trump's proposed $110 billion arms package to Riyadh, which the administration said would create U.S. jobs while also improving a key ally's military capability.
But opponents of the deal, led by Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., have been sharply critical of Riyadh's role in Yemen's civil war and the kingdom's human rights abuses. They said they feared the sophisticated weapons could be used in the conflict against Yemeni civilians.....
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He's also throwing all kinds of monkey wrenches into moving the health plan through the Senate.
This little erratic worm is seriously getting on my last nerve.
Leni
Yes, Saudi pilots come to the USA for training with our military.
Thanks. I guess I don’t give a nation that can’t even drill its own oil enough credit.
Although the government was complicit in both, the attack on Japan was justified, while the one on New York was not.
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