Critics try, but fail to kill $1 billion weapons deal for Saudi Arabia

Fox News ^

[TigerClaws]

WASHINGTON -- Barring last minute opposition from Congress, Saudi Arabia is poised to receive a hefty $1.3 billion weapons package that includes 13,000 “smart bombs” from the United States by the end of the year. But don’t necessarily expect it to be used to fight ISIS.

Critics say the payload of sophisticated weapons will instead bolster the Saudis' continuing air war against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. That campaign is drawing fire from human rights groups, who say the kingdom has been targeting civilians with American-made weapons, and may be responsible for war crimes.

[Jim Robinson]

Treason

[Vermont Lt]

Gotta keep our production lines running.

We are killing ourselves.

[WENDLE]

Saudi Arabia should be blown off the earth and we should take their oil. THEY SPONSORED THE ATTACK ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER,PENTAGON and Flight 93. THEY SPONSOR WAHHABI SECT SUNNIS!! What does bush do? He attacks the wrong damned COUNTRY !! WAKE UP!!

[Vince Ferrer]

Here is Warren Beatty to explain. The Saudis want to send a billion dollars of money we gave them for oil back here to buy bombs to blow up Iranians, who will then blow up Saudis. I'm in. With popcorn.

[Mears]

“That campaign is drawing fire from human rights groups-——”

---

I’m sure the Saudis will get a good laugh out of this.

.

[Tuketu]

Don't worry, Saudis are being permitted to destroy our oil industry because oil is prohibited from being sold offshore as I understand it. In return, I think the Saudis will finance some food industry here though, sounded like Wahhabi sauce?

BTW JEB know anything about that plane your bro let take off after 9/11? .. was it pay back for the several million dollar award the Saudis gave Poppa when he was honored there after Desert Storm when leaving the Presidency? Aww shucks, that would sound like the Republicans are as corrupt as the Dems... well not quite.

NO WONDER TRUMP UPSETS THEM! JMO

[Psalm 144]

Smart bombs for dumb bums. I like it. The most expensive way for the Saudi bandits to be ineffective.

[dfwgator]

Arthur Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

Howard Beale: Why me?

Arthur Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.

Howard Beale: I have seen the face of God.

Arthur Jensen: You just might be right, Mr. Beale.

[huldah1776]

I thought we didn’t have enough for our own Air Force?

[PIF]

Our smart bombs come with the stamping “In Socialism We Trust,” while the Saudi version comes with “Allah u Akbar” - see the difference? The plants ran out of the first variety and now must turn full production to the second.

[huldah1776]

LOL. However, on a thread regarding Russia vs the US, I told Putin (who had better be listening) that the head of this administration has proven since the “flexible” comment that he is a Muslim first, communist second. So why not save money and have one copy!