Fwd: [MD] Go Figure

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Maggie

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From: ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102@psu.edu>
Date: July 28, 2007 5:42:25 PM EDT
To: moq_discuss@moqtalk.org
Subject: [MD] Go Figure
Reply-To: moq_discuss@moqtalk.org

Gotta love this.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/28/saudi.arms/index.html

"The United States is developing a proposed $20 billion, 10-year arms sales
package for Saudi Arabia... One of the more controversial proposals will
probably be selling the Saudis, for the first time, satellite-guided bombs
known as JDAMs. The sale may include a 500-pound and a 2,000-pound version of
the aerial bomb."

To "counter Iranian aggression".

Meanwhile, consider...

"In 2002, the United Nations Committee against Torture criticized Saudi Arabia
over the amputations and floggings it carries out under the Shari'a. The Saudi
delegation responded defending its legal traditions held since the inception of
Islam in the region 1400 years ago and rejected "interference" in its legal
system." (From Wikipedia entry on Saudi Arabia).

Not to mention the Israelis seem convinced that Saudi Arabia's ties with
international terrorism are "indisuptable". (http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp504.htm)

Even the CATO Institute seems less than "happy" withe Saudi Arabia's passive
support (at the least) of terrorism. (http://www.cato.org/dailys/11-16-01.html)

So I wonder, with even King George begrudgingly admitting that Al Qaueda is
stronger today than prior to our invasion of Iraq, are we really "at war with
terrorism" when we give 20 billion dollars worth of weapons of mass destruction
to one of the larger violators of human rights AND a state sponsor of terrorism.

Wacky. Until, I suppose, you read this.

"Saudi Arabia is the world's leading petroleum exporter" (Wikipedia).

Makes sense.

The moral high-ground, it appears, is the top of an oil well.


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