Posted on 10/12/2010 8:54:34 AM PDT by Nachum
President Obama issued a waiver loosening Tiananmen arms sanctions for C-130 military transports for China a day after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an imprisoned Chinese dissident who dedicated the prize this past weekend to the victims of the 1989 crackdown.
Chinese state-run news media on Monday hailed the White House waiver announcement as a sign Washington is moving to lift the 11-year-old arms embargo.
However, White House National Security Council spokesman Michael Hammer said the waiver issued on Saturday will not allow C-130s sales. "Under this announcement, we are not selling any aircraft to anyone," he stated in an e-mail.
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Wow, he just became the Waiver President overnight...
Chalk this one up as another Outrage moment.
And why the hell would we want to sell these to the Chinese anyways?
C-130H or C-130J?
Most sellers do it to make a profit!
We don’t need to be in any arms dealings with China. Period.
We don’t need to be aiding or supporting their logistical efforts for their military for any reason.
That bastard and his idiot posse MUST be stopped!
> ...And why the hell would we want to sell these to the Chinese anyways?
> Most sellers do it to make a profit!
Wait until they see a Chinese copy of the C-130 is for sale for less than what they can be produced here for.
Very stupid idea, Obowma!
I guess he wants to get the ball rolling in helping the ChiComms invade Taiwan. After all he has the attempted destruction of Israel well in hand.
That's probably true... Of course, it depends on what the meanings of the words "are" and "not" and "sell" and "any" and "aircraft" are.
I'm guessing that the Chinese only want to buy one fully-documented plane...
See tagline for the most benign explanation but there are too many cases of these strange timings for this to be simply written off as tone deafness.
From the headline, I presumed that the “timing” was related, not to the Nobel Prize, but to our elections. For Chicago style politics “waiver” usually means patronage.
I guess you don't support American jobs, too! We have a greater enemy in the White House, FRiends!
China wants to be China. They do not want to rule the world, but they don't want the world to try to rule China. Ditto here!
“China wants to be China. They do not want to rule the world...” The mindset of the Middle Kingdom is the same as it has been for thousands of years. They think they are the center of the world and have ALWAYS wanted to rule the world!
More proof that Obama requires adult supervision.
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