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To: sheik yerbouty
Rewarding the Saudis for spawning and financing the terrorists who are at war with us...

Where in the hell do you think our fighter jets and support personnel were stationed for the 13 years we were enforcing the "no-fly zones" in Northern and Southern Iraq since the first Gulf War in 1991 and prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003?

The Saudi Governmnent has been very cooperative in the WOT. Like Pakistan, it is a portion of their citizenship that is the problem.

It was the presence of these "infidel" US troops at Prince Sultan Air Base in the Holy Land of Saudi Arabia that bin Laden cited as one of the reasons he ordered the 9/11 attacks.

There are grave problems with the rank and file in Saudi Arabia, but the government of Saudi Arabia has been staunch US allies for 30 years.

17 posted on 07/30/2007 10:09:11 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: Yo-Yo
Another stipulation is that all those arms are being made here in the US, and sold at going rates in that amount also.

I don't agree with it, but the money does at least go back into US companies and workers. With the money that S.A. is making at almost $80 a barrel the least they could do is give up a few days profits and pay for their own weapons though, that is just wrong to give them more money than we are now.

20 posted on 07/30/2007 10:19:11 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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