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Report: Bush sets $20b Saudi arms deal

Posted : Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:16:58 GMT
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WASHINGTON, July 28 The Bush administration plans to ask Congress to approve arms sales to Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that may eventually total $20 billion.

The proposed arms deal includes advanced satellite-guided bombs, upgrades to Saudi fighters and new naval vessels, The New York Times reported Saturday.

The proposal has caused some anxiety for Israel and some of its supporters in Congress, the newspaper said. However, senior administration officials said they believed those concerns had been resolved -- in some measure through a promise of $30.4 billion in military aid to Israel during the next 10 years.

Administration officials said they were concerned that the size of the Saudi deal -- and the inclusion of advanced weaponry in the transaction -- could combine with general concern about Saudi Arabia's role in Iraq to generate opposition in Congress to the deal.

The proposal will be formally presented to Congress this fall, the Times said.

Copyright 2007 by UPI


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hand over
By: propagandhi , Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:00:31 GMT

it's nice to know we hand over our subsidized tax dollars into the Pentagon system so they could develop these fancy weapons then hand them over to corporations who in turn hand them over to Saudi Arabia for billions in profit...and then the Saudis hand them over to fundamentalist Sunnis who then hand them over (use them on) our soldiers and Iraqi people... what a nice world we live in, so much giving...


warmongers
By: tom , Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:53:07 GMT

Will anyone be suprised when both sides deside to use all the nice toys we sell them??

(On us!??)

It's ALL blood money...



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