Posted on 11/19/2010 4:43:29 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
The Obama administration has quietly forged ahead with its proposal to sell $60 billion worth of fighter jets and attack helicopters to Saudi Arabia unhampered by Congress, despite questions raised in legislative inquiries and in an internal congressional report about the wisdom of the deal.
The massive arms deal would be the single largest sale of weapons to a foreign nation in the history of the U.S., outfitting Saudi Arabia with a fully modernized, potent new air force.
"Our six-decade-long security relationship with Saudi Arabia is a primary security pillar in the region," Defense Sec. Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote in a Nov. 16 letter to congress. "This package continues that tradition."
But some critics are questioning the deal, and the stealthy effort by the Obama administration to avoid a more probing congressional review by notifying Congress last month, just as members were headed home for the November elections. Congress had 30 days to raise objections -- a review period that concludes Saturday. With most members leaving Washington today, any significant effort to block the deal appears dead for now, officials said.
"I do not think there will be any action" to hold up the sale, Rep. Howard Berman, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Bloomberg News Thursday.
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is this the same weiner who’s “beard” is hillary’s muslim chief of staff?
Well, according to Michael Moore, it was Bush who was in bed with the Saudis. I guess with Obama in there too, it must be a threesome.
Yeah good question I was wondering the same thing.
Exactly what I was thinking, as well as not ONE second of worry over Israel. The IDF is second to none, maybe the Saudi's can get some help there? /sarc
That was almost an insult....
I dunno - you could have been some 75yr old guy surfing it up on FR & he’s like - Bush & the suadis are french kissing, sup with that?
Considering that anything and everything was reported on Bush, I’d say it’s obvious that it’s not real.
..not to mention the bad quality of photoshop.
islamists really feeling their oats these days, eh?
the Chinese!
Hmm—and he’s married Huma Abedin, whom I believe is Saudi? Could be wrong.
...in what,, 10 years? If Obama doesn't sabotage the deal? He already denied them the F-22 Raptor.
Strangely enough, they're actually on the same side in this case.
But back to Saudis - they only buy the limousines. They leave the chauffeuring and grease-monkeying to the USA.
I am FOR this deal. There is no alternative given the options available to the Saudis with emerging PAK-FA and other technologies. By selling advanced arms to the Saudis or India, we will take the lion’s share of the market and money that would otherwise be spent in Russia, China, etc. The Saudis shop globally, and know where their bread is buttered.
But she looks like a demon!
Surely demons share the same level.
Give it up.
Can you go ahead and analyze this for me? Can't tell if it's real or not...
That’s real. It is Janet Napolitano demonstrating the new ‘search the mouth’ procedure TSA will conduct to dissenters of the RapeScan and the Blue Glove Molestation procedures.
Interesting. Of course if Bush had inked this deal the MSM and Congress would be screaming like outraged nuns.
I don’t see this as being a major threat to Israel. Arabs make lousy fighter drivers and their maintenance troops suck even worse. All we would have to do is stop supporting them and forbid any tech-rep visits and within a year, all that spiffy new hardware would be so much junk.
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