Arms Sale, somethings not right

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The Bush Administration will be presenting to congress an Arms Sale Package to Saudi Arabia for their approval. The announced arms sale was immediately met with sharp criticism from congress, especially Israel and the Israeli Lobby. So what happened next, Israel and it's lobby bribed the U.S. into increasing its military aide by $30+ billion. Israel should be lobbying for the U.S. to sell huge amounts of military equipment to all the Arab and Muslim countries throughout the globe, the U.S. would then be suckered into financing every aspect of the state of Israel.

Most arm sales are done to raise funds, i.e. profits, or for some other political purpose. But if you examine this current arms sale package to Saudi Arabia you will see that it is worth around $20 billion dollars, you'd think the U.S. government just increase it's income by $2o billion but that did not happen. Immediately we are coaxed into giving those profits, plus another $10 billion dollars to Israel for military purposes (an illegal occupation, expansion of settlements, building and maintenance of a prison fence) and we don't require them to account for 1 cent of it. Why, if the did show where the money went we would be forced to cease giving them any more aide because of the illegal occupation we are so conveniently financing. Israel is the only recipient of U.S. Foreign Aide that does not have to account for it.

Why does Israel need all this money? Just watch the news, you don't see the Israelis living in tents, or praying for water, that's the Palestinians you see doing those things. They need the money not Israel. And if Israel still is dependent on our aide after all these years of being so generous to them, then they need to get someone else to do their accounting.

Am I the only one disturbed by this?

Israel and the U.S. Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia

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The Bush Administration is planning on a huge arms sale to Saudi Arabia and is hoping Congress will approve the transaction. The sale includes sophisticated satellite guided bombs, fighter jet upgrades and some navy boats. The administration is hoping the arms sale will deter any hostile action on part of the Iranians as well as letting our Arab allies know that we still stand with them. Much of the criticism in the U.S. is coming from the Pro-Israel Lobby saying this sale will result in Saudi Arabia taking a much bigger role amongst the insurgency in Iraq as well as putting Israels safety at risk. That's a bunch of bullshit, so the Saudis have some satellite guided missiles, Israel still is the big dog being it is the first to introduce and the only nation to possess a nuclear arsenal in the Middle East. Can anyone guess how might the US alleviate Israels concerns, how about giving them an extra 30+ billion in military aide. I would be surprised if the Israeli Lobby had a hand in arranging this deal for the Saudis in hope of using it to blackmail the US into giving it more aide. If a threat in the form of a pedophile were to move next door to a family of 3, including a 3 year old child, could you alleviate your concerns for your child's safety by allowing an even bigger threat to the pedophile to live in your house? No you wouldn't, you would do whatever it took to prevent this person from moving in next door, not add more potential violence but that is exactly what Israel is doing. Have we not learned anything from the cold war. Back then if we were able to destroy the U.S.S.R. three times over then the U.S.S.R. wouldn't feel safe until they could destroy the U.S. four times over. Israel already has a larger, better equipped military than all their neighbors combined what more could the possibly need military speaking.