Posted on 02/14/2008 6:35:41 PM PST by ddtorquee
Last month, the president announced his intention to sell Saudi Arabia some of our most sophisticated weapons. This is a bad idea, and you should let your representative know it right away.
The proposed $20 billion deal includes satellite-guided weaponry and high-tech munitions, including 900 JDAM bombs. The JDAM is arguably the smartest smart bomb in our arsenal. Its electronics can guide the bomb to its target regardless of weather. And, it is also resistant to the jamming of its GPS system.
...The Saudi government funds and operates mosques, madrassas, and Islamic centers in the United States and elsewhere. These institutions spread the Salafist, or Wahabi, version of Islam practiced in the kingdomthe same kind that prohibits the practice of Christianity, that lets girls burn to death rather than letting them exit a burning building in their pajamas.
Whats more, it is the version of Islam that inspires bin Laden and other extremists and seeks to dominate other, more moderate, versions of Islam and destroy non-Muslim nations like ours. Without Saudi petro-dollars, Salafism would be confined to the Arabian peninsula.
...It is a tribute to the Saudis considerable influence in U.S. corridors of power that such a ridiculous deal would ever be proposed. It is also, as Gaffney and others have pointed out, a consequence of our dependence on Saudi oil.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The Saudis have enough bought and paid for politicians to get what they want. Look at the current toll road mess in Texas, the politicians know that the people don't want it but the Saudis do.
Aw geez, is Colson an isolationist now, too?
At least the Saudis are paying for the stuff, as opposed to the countries to which we donate weapons.
Jeepers! Say it isn't so.
I’ve always hated those pictures.
Some war.
Reading the comments on Townhall, they appearently allow leftists to post. Bush lied, unjustified war, blah, blah..I used to like Townhall too. Why I could just read that nonsense on the DU instead.
The Saudi government can make a lot of their money back by just selling a few of them to China, our new friends.
Learning how to jam our JDAMS should be worth a few bucks.
Thanks GWB.
We should make a law that says that no laws can be passed in a lame duck session.
Remember HWB sighing the clean water act just before leaving.
If they're going to bomb a target it would be good if they hit it. They have waxed a few Al Qaida types already, this could help them take out a few more.
When there is a fundamentalist islam revolution in SA, the more fanatical people will have charge of those weapons.
We need to stop this insanity, outlaw foreign government lobbying, and implement the recommendations in Energy Victory to get us off the SA teat.
Ping
right on purpleraine
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