Thursday, January 17, 2008

Bush Loves Monarchy

The headline-making centerpiece of George W. Bush's eight-day, public-relations junket to the Middle East and the Persian Gulf was not his insistence that he had gone to Israel to help make peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Instead, it was his promise to Saudi King Abdullah, the ruler of the top oil-producing country in the world, of a weapons sale worth some $120 billion. (Marginal note: It's no secret that the extended Bush family is personally close to Saudi Arabia's ruling family.) The proposed deal calls for the sale of 900 Joint Direct Attack Munition bomb kits to the Saudis. The arms-sale plan angered Israel's backers in Washington, but Israeli security sources said this week that the United States would provide the Jewish state with better 'smart bombs' than those it plans to sell Saudi Arabia.
more HERE and HERE
...these deals come after an arms deal made last June...remember?
THIS might jog your memory...

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