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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.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


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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1 posted on 01/31/2013 7:20:59 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

“Sales” is kind of a subjective term in situations like this.

As I understand it the sale involves us giving them the money to give to someone else and we give them the jets (and our money).


2 posted on 01/31/2013 7:24:09 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Olog-hai

This is on the shoulders of the manufacturers as well.

They, themselves, should protest. They could stop the physical transfer of the materials from their property, but I’m not holding my breath.

Everyday, our Government gives us a new reason to question their competency.

....clearly, our Congress is bought and sold.


3 posted on 01/31/2013 7:25:52 PM PST by Noamie
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To: Olog-hai

Our senate is slime.

Period.


4 posted on 01/31/2013 7:26:24 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: cripplecreek

So this is a roundabout way of subsidizing the Military-Industrial complex and giving Egypt jets that they can’t really use. Big surprise.


5 posted on 01/31/2013 7:30:49 PM PST by MetaThought
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To: Olog-hai

I heard career politician Senator Sessions on the radio today say this was a tough vote because we have long standing arrangements. Anyone with a brain knows giving the Egyptians 200 tanks and 50 planes will only be used to kill Israelis. Shame Sessions Shame. Retire and go home. Boo...get off the stage.


6 posted on 01/31/2013 7:30:49 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Noamie

Maybe they should just add an EXTRA circuit to these tanks and fighters that might ACCIDENTALLY cause the electronics to fuse into a smoking lump at the most inopportune time.


7 posted on 01/31/2013 7:32:55 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: samadams2000

By the way he sounded like a clueless bastard living in his own bubble. We have a serious problem for those who aren’t paying attention.


8 posted on 01/31/2013 7:33:19 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Da Coyote
I have come to understand Caligula.
9 posted on 01/31/2013 7:34:49 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: samadams2000
Anyone with a brain knows giving the Egyptians 200 tanks and 50 planes will only be used to kill Israelis.

You're right. Are our people nuts?

10 posted on 01/31/2013 7:34:59 PM PST by GOPJ ( Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Vladimir Nabokov)
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To: Olog-hai

Chicken Shiite senate. They must go, and I don’t mean via election, because we know that doesn’t work.


11 posted on 01/31/2013 7:36:28 PM PST by crosshairs (All we are saying, is give a high cap piece a chance.)
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To: samadams2000

Long standing arrangements agreed to by that idiot Jimmy Carter. And the government he agreed with is no longer standing.

And those arrangements never committed us to supplying them with planes and tanks and the like, unless we saw fit.

These guys are a bunch of corrupt pork-grubbers. I suppose they figure if they vote against it, Obama the Muslim will give them less pork.


12 posted on 01/31/2013 7:41:13 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Olog-hai
Of course my fine conservative, TEA Party supported Senator from PA, Pat Toomey voted in favor of Egypt. He also voted for John F'n Kerry. I wrote him last week about gun control. I received a limp wristed, pussy letter saying that he is open to new laws to keep our children safe. He has no principles. And now I think he is either an idiot or a Democrat in drag. Maybe he is both.

I do not think I will waste my time on writing him in the future. I am going to be too busy packing my bags for TX.

13 posted on 01/31/2013 7:44:53 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe)
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Toomey always was a phony. Rhode Island liberal and Harvard graduate. How the Tea Party was suckered by him, I can’t figure out.


14 posted on 01/31/2013 7:50:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: GOPJ

We are not selling them the latest and greatest versions of this stuff and we can cut off parts supply’s at any time.

The Israelis would kill them if they got bold.


15 posted on 01/31/2013 7:50:54 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Olog-hai

Paul redeemed himself partially after his disappointing Kerry vote, but Cruz is the man now.


16 posted on 01/31/2013 7:51:47 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder how many of the 79 are Jews willing to sell out Israel for their 30 pieces of silver.


17 posted on 01/31/2013 7:52:38 PM PST by kempster
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To: Olog-hai

Am I still in the right country? In the United States, giving arms to the enemy is considered treason.


18 posted on 01/31/2013 7:55:04 PM PST by Standing Wolf
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To: ConservativeInPA
Toomey has also been a real disappointment to me.
19 posted on 01/31/2013 7:55:08 PM PST by mickie (My grandson is a Marine.....now serving in Afghanistan.)
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To: Olog-hai

So now Rand Paul owes Reid one for letting his amendment get voted on...

That’s not good. Maybe it’ll be worth it but I doubt it.


20 posted on 01/31/2013 7:55:21 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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