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US Senate Shoots Down Bid to Halt Sales of F-16s, Tanks to Egypt
Cybercast News Service ^ | January 31, 2013 | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 01/31/2013 7:20:51 PM PST by Olog-hai

The U.S. Senate Thursday defeated an amendment that aimed to prevent the Obama administration from transferring F-16 fighter aircraft and Abrams tanks to an Egypt in disarray.

A vote to block the measure proposed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)—an amendment to the debt limit bill—passed by a 79–19 vote.

In a strong-worded floor statement Paul questioned the wisdom of providing the sophisticated weaponry at a time when “many see Egypt descending into chaos.” …

“I think this is particularly unwise since Egypt is currently governed by a religious zealot, a religious zealot who said recently that Jews were ‘bloodsuckers’ and ‘descendants of apes and pigs,’” he said. “This doesn’t sound like the kind of stable personality that we would be sending our most sophisticated weapons to.” …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 113th; armsbuildup; egypt; mohammedmorsi; morsi; randfail; randpail; senate4alqaeda; senate4crucifixion; senate4ikhwan; senate4islam; senate4slavery; senateservesikhwan; senatevsisrael; waronterror
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To: Olog-hai

79 votes to arm our avowed enemies (who, not incidentally, bomb Christian churches and beat up Christians in the streets). 79 votes!!! May God bless and save America


21 posted on 01/31/2013 7:55:53 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: mylife

Exactly, and, the Egyptian army will need the stuff when they have to roll over the bloodthirsty muzzie mobs, and eventually, Morsi and his jihadist regime.


22 posted on 01/31/2013 8:02:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Olog-hai

Take a look at the roll call vote and remind each of the numerous RINOs that voted for it that they WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!


23 posted on 01/31/2013 8:06:58 PM PST by 21st Century Crusader (August 26, 1191)
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To: Olog-hai

Does anyone have roll-call?
I’m looking to see how Dan Coats (R-IN) voted.

TIA.


24 posted on 01/31/2013 8:10:33 PM PST by Hazelwood Redneck Brain Trust
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To: Olog-hai

” - - - - The no votes all came from Republicans:
Sens. John Boozeman (Ark.),
Dan Coats (Ind.),
John Cornyn (Tex.),
Mike Crapo (Idaho),
Ted Cruz (Tex.),
Deb Fischer (Nebr.),
Chuck Grassley (Iowa),
Dean Heller (Nev.),
Mike Lee (Utah),
Jerry Moran (Kans.),
Rand Paul (Ky.),
James Risch (Idaho),
Pat Roberts (Kans.),
Marco Rubio (Fla.),
Tim Scott (S.C.),
Jeff Sessions (Ala.),
Richard Shelby (Ala.),
John Thune, (S.D.) and
David Vitter (La.). - - - - “

Thank you Senators.


25 posted on 01/31/2013 8:11:23 PM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Commune Obama"care" violates Anti-Trust Laws, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: SunkenCiv

Egypt’s army will never go against Morsi.


26 posted on 01/31/2013 8:11:46 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Jeez Louise!! Mike Johanns was wrong AGAIN!!!

This guy hasn’t made a decent vote in the last 2 years. We have GOT to get rid of him!


27 posted on 01/31/2013 8:17:17 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: SunkenCiv

or it could be Turkey again and the military will be the Brotherhood scum.


28 posted on 01/31/2013 8:22:54 PM PST by dervish (either the vote was corrupt or the electorate is)
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To: Olog-hai

American and Israeli soldiers will die at some time in the future from these airplanes.

The politicians won’t give a damn.

And the Obama voters won’t give a damn.


29 posted on 01/31/2013 8:25:04 PM PST by oldbill
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To: Olog-hai

The no votes all came from Republicans: Sens. John Boozeman (Ark.), Dan Coats (Ind.), John Cornyn (Tex.), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Ted Cruz (Tex.), Deb Fischer (Nebr.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Dean Heller (Nev.), Mike Lee (Utah), Jerry Moran (Kans.), Rand Paul (Ky.), James Risch (Idaho), Pat Roberts (Kans.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Jeff Sessions (Ala.), Richard Shelby (Ala.), John Thune, (S.D.) and David Vitter (La.).

I’m keeping score


30 posted on 01/31/2013 8:27:33 PM PST by dervish (either the vote was corrupt or the electorate is)
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To: oldbill

The two latter groups will have to stand before God and answer for all of that. May not be soon enough to suit us, but when the time comes, we’ll see lots of sweat dripping off those multitudes . . .


31 posted on 01/31/2013 8:28:01 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: kempster

There is no silver. Some don’t recognize Egypt as a threat, imagining taht the Muslim Brotherhood is moderate or some such. Others think that the aid is necessary to keep the Egyptian military on our side.


32 posted on 01/31/2013 8:49:46 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Olog-hai

Which J school teaches the use of double negatives in headlines?


33 posted on 01/31/2013 8:54:39 PM PST by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Olog-hai

When it comes to Egypt & the Muslim Brotherhood, I’m a moderate.

Nuke the Aswan High Dam! Time for the world’s biggest ever toilet flush!


34 posted on 01/31/2013 8:56:57 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: kempster

So, these are the Jewish Senators that turned their backs on Israel in favor of Egyptian Terrorists.

Carl Levin
Frank Lautenberg
Dianne Feinstein
Barbara Boxer
Ron Wyden
Benjamin Cardin
Bernard Sanders
Al Franken
Richard Blumenthal
Brian Schatz


35 posted on 01/31/2013 9:12:10 PM PST by kempster
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To: Graewoulf

The “yes” GOP votes are?


36 posted on 01/31/2013 9:47:17 PM PST by zerosix (Native sunflower)
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To: mickie

37 posted on 01/31/2013 9:54:06 PM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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To: Graewoulf

Yep, figured my butt-boy Senators from TN, Lamar! and Corker, would vote with the enemy.


38 posted on 01/31/2013 9:57:46 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'm done with the GOP. Let them wither and die. Let's start over.)
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To: kempster

To #35: out of these Jewish senators, we have:

* one marxist, avowed socialist, but a RED - Sanders
* one liar, Vietnam vet fraud, Blumenthal
* one clown, Franken
* one fool who was used by the KGB in 1975 to welcome a KGB front delegation made up of top Soviet bloc communists and KGB agents of influence - Carl Levin, re World Peace Council tour, including getting the keys to Detroit
* one old fool - Lautenberg
* one stupid fool - Feinstein but slick on gun control
* one troll midget brain, Boxer (and crazy as a loon)
* veteran leftists (with repeats), Wyden, Sanders, Franken, Blumenthal, Levin, Boxer, Sanders
* One fool liberal - Ben Cardin (from my old hood)
* one new leftist fool - Schatz

As a Jew, I cannot be proud of any of them. Cardin should have known better. If his mother is still alive, she’s gonna beat his ass good on this vote. If his father is still alive, he’ll sentence him to life in jail (a former judge). (I think they have passed away but they were proud liberals who supported Israel as an ally and homeland for dispossed Jewsish refugees from around the world).


39 posted on 02/01/2013 12:35:36 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Ol Texas Cornyman running scared, knowin’ you are going to get primaried will change your WHOLE outlook on life and voting.

Good job Cruz....making us proud in Texas....keep hammering these a$$hats.

The rest of you YES voters nothing but “teaser” bulls all running around humping and humping the air with your tool sewed to the side of your belly, just getting tired.
Not the A+ bulls that are doing the real breeding in the pasture.

Bought time to turn the “non-producers” into jerky or hamburger meat.


40 posted on 02/01/2013 2:59:59 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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