Posted on 06/20/2019 10:56:43 AM PDT by Steve1999
The Senate voted to block President Trump’s Saudi arms deal on Thursday, paving the way for a veto clash with the White House. The Senate voted 53-45 on resolutions to block two of the sales, with GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Mike Lee (Utah), Jerry Moran (Kansas), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Todd Young (Ind.) joining Democrats. They voted 51-45 to block the additional 20 arms sales. Murkwoski flipped to vote for the sale, while Lee did not vote. The 22 arms sales, estimated to be worth more than $8 billion, would provide weapons to Saudi Arabia, as well as the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. But it sparked widespread backlash in Congress after Trump used an “emergency” provision of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) to sidestep the 30-day notification to lawmakers about a pending sale.
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we’ve armed the Saudi dictatorship to the teeth, and more so.
they are no friends of USA
Not enough for a veto override.
we’ve armed the Saudi dictatorship to the teeth, and more so.
they are no friends of USA
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Go ahead with the $8 billion dollars in sales. Hell, the Saudi’s recent performance in Yemen proved they are incapable of effectively using them anyhow.
that’s an interesting observation, thanks
“.....Hell, the Saudi’s recent performance in Yemen proved they are incapable of effectively using them anyhow.”
How true. The Saudi’s have seemingly always conned others into fighting their wars while they sit back chewing Camel jerky, and laughing at the fools dying for them.
They are going to regret that vote if the Iran thing blows up.
A country does not have “friends” unless they’re stone stupid. They have allies according to their national interest.
Can’t defense companies sell to whomever they wish?
The Saudis will remain “friends of convenience” of U.S. administrations, until the Shia Islam regime of the Mullahs in Tehran implodes and is replaced with a true Iranian secular-democracy. Then the Saudis will be one of only two major uber fundamentalist regimes in the Middle East, both Sunni - the Saudis and Erdogan’s Turkey. Then U.S. policy will shift.
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