Snugglies with da Saudi'sFollow

allowing Iran easy access.

To do what? Iran is as likely to ever invade Saudi Arabia as the US is to invade Greenland.

its all about the oil. once iran and or syeria have comtroll over iraq either directly or indirectly, which was ineviatable since the day we invaded, and they know it, our FRIENDLY oil suppliers will be drying up.

if saudi arabia were to fall under the influence of a hostile foreign power, adn im not talking about an invasion either, a solid deal with china could leave us out of the loop, we would be totally dependant on south america for our imports.

and chevez has more pull in that reagon than the president of the united states. imagine that. a two bit thung. shows how far we have fallen. we could be brought to our knees financially for a time.

i say for a time because with enough motivation, we COULD rid ourselves of this dependancy on oil all together. eventually we will too. but untill that time, the financial powers that be feel spending your tax dollars to make weapons to sell to saudi arabia seems like a small price to pay....for those whose pocket it doesnt come out of......to make sure the status quo is maintained for a bit longer.

it isnt as much out of fear from the iraq mess, which is how they will spinn it to you ignorant sheep, as it is to make sure it is OUR foot in their door and not someone elses. that little private battle has been going on since the first drop of oil was pumped out of the sand in the middle east. a financial battle for the for profit energy industry using our government resources to secure and win.

if you look deep enough, you MIGHT start to see the true nature of "capitolistic democracy". the only real differances between our government and a monarchy or doctatorship is we get to choose a new face person to look at every four years to make us feel like we have a choice in something. but the true power rarely ever changes hands. sometimes those face people geta big head and they have to be.....removed.....but for the most part they play their part like good little emploees.

take florida for example. Christ ran on a platform of insurance reform and property tax repeal. he even tied up congress and the legislature in the process. but, in the end, MY property taxes still increased, and MY insurance also increased.

the party line now? well, if it wasnt for their tireless efforts, it would have gone up significantly more than it did.

the lesson? the powers that be, the insurance industry, let their emploee run off at the mouth untill the election was over, then.....hahahaah, so long suckers.......

same with gay rights, immigration, stem cell research, lobbist reform and a whole slew of other issues that seem to evaporate as soon as the new goon is sworn in and has to start playing ball.

or forefathers carefully worded the constitution to make sure that wealthy people do not take rights away from the common people like they did in europe where they came from. those wealthy people have been erroding those rights ever since. doesnt it bother anyone that we almost impeached Nixon for the very same thing Bush did, but now its not a big issue?
complacency. the dumbing down of america.

the moral majority working hard for .........

No joking around here!!

Greenland's got oil AND bottleable freshly-melted magnificently-aged glacier water. We might invade. Maybe...if we want.

As I read it, it was $20bil in arms deals with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and a couple other Middle Eastern nations. Not just with Saudi Arabia. Which is nothing too suprising, we've been doing the same for some time now; trading guns for diplomacy amongst the Middle Eastern nations who aren't currently calling the president the Great Satan.After 9/11, it was obvious that a lot of minor nations were signing up for the Global War on Terror based on the membership perks. Arms deals, favored trade status, etc. This isn't so much impacting the GWAT, it is the GWAT.

Edited, Jul 30th 2007 2:32pm by Jophiel

The Washington Post story readsSo I got the nations kind of messed up but the Post reported that the $20bil was shared. Although I'm sure that Saudi Arabia gets the lion's share.

Anyway, I suppose the line "a move to shore up allies in the Middle East..." jives with my own theories -- we're just keeping everyone on our side by sharing our toys.

We do what we can.

Especially when Briatin bribes Saudi Princes so that Saudi Arabia buys its arms contracts from BAE.

And we would've investigated it, except the government told us it would hurt Britain's interests. Well, duh.

Well true, but I still we stopped selling to them after the war started, or well, soon after.

Anywho - How many "terrorists" wanted by the French were safely chilling out in Londonistan during the 90's?!!!

Ah, les diners de famille...

you frenchies are just lucky you dont have any oil, or that whole WW2 liberation thing might have gone totally differant..........your also lucky your tiny little piece of dirt just happened to be inbewteen where we were and where we wanted to be.

now only, if we could find an excuse to invade someone who 1. has oil, and 2. will like us after ward to make that whole occupation thing go a little better, and 3. wont leave us with several million destitute, homeless, hungry people we have to take care of afterwards.

No thanks. I've just eaten.

But awfully nice of you to offer