[mylife]

This is gonna piss Bin Laden off.

Ohhh well

[Kitten Festival]

Iran will crap its pants. I am all for this. The Saudis were key to destroying the Soviet empire and I hope they are key to destroying both bin Laden and Iran, too. I can respect them for this. Yes, we should build all kind of weapons with them if that will take care of business. Saudis aren't stupid.

[AIM-54]

Wahabbis and arms production. Great. Just Great.

[VxH]

This is BS.

The Saudis are only our friends as long as it suits them.

Our weapon systems should be 100% Made in the USA by American citizen laborers.

[caddie]

The Saudis are total a$$h*les in my opinion. They are completely duplicitous and treacherous to the US. Their primary loyalty is to al Queda, not the West.

Weren't almost all the 9/11 terrorists Saudis?

Isn't Bin Laden a Saudi?

Only an idiot would think the Saudis are allies of ours.

Therefore step ONE to restoring some sanity in the US foreign policy is to stop kissing their asses and, instead, to hold them accountable for all the crap they have been doing to us over the years... funding Wahabbis, approving of radicals, tolerating all the terrorists whom they actually nurture.

We ought to be applying maximal pressure to the Saudis, not kissing their evening-gowned asses.

What State Department cretin thought of this nitwit plan?

[Dan Evans]

Something funny about this. I never figured the Saudis had much in the way of manufacturing expertise. They have to import foreigners to do anything more complicated than washing their socks.

[RunningWolf]

I like these kind of ventures.

At the very least, it tends to draw back towards us our allies like the Saudis, and reinforces/nurtures prior relations with these important powers.

[Finalapproach29er]

Making tanks for the Saudis. WTH?

Reminds me of the warning in the book of John about Jerusalem being surrounded.

Bush is creating prophecy. Foolish.

[Desron13]

The Saudis are financing radical religious schools all over the world. This is insanity.

[o_zarkman44]

This is great. Not only do we depend on middle East oil, we are now building military hardware there as well. If the SHTF our good muslim buddies in the Mid East are probably going to cut off our access to any strategic asset we have in that region.

This really makes me feel more secure. Co-operation with those governments is a one sided deal. Good for them. bad for us. We can make the military hardware in USA. Employ Americans. Sell the hardware to them. Make profit.
But don't give them control of the factory!

Military uniforms made in China. Tanks made in Egypt.
Boots made in Hong Kong. Selling out our national defense resources is supreme idiocy.

[Walkingfeather]

not without us holding a satalite destruction key on every weapon.