Diegetics

What a surprise...

I guess we had pictures of Bush kissing Saudis, the Obama admin photo would probably be more along the lines of a Monica/Bill private photo shoot.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/critics-s ... d=12192558

The Obama administration has quietly forged ahead with its proposal to sell $60 billion worth of fighter jets and attack helicopters to Saudi Arabia unhampered by Congress, despite questions raised in legislative inquiries and in an internal congressional report about the wisdom of the deal.

The massive arms deal would be the single largest sale of weapons to a foreign nation in the history of the U.S., outfitting Saudi Arabia with a fully modernized, potent new air force.

"Our six-decade-long security relationship with Saudi Arabia is a primary security pillar in the region," Defense Sec. Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote in a Nov. 16 letter to congress. "This package continues that tradition."

But some critics are questioning the deal, and the stealthy effort by the Obama administration to avoid a more probing congressional review by notifying Congress last month, just as members were headed home for the November elections. Congress had 30 days to raise objections -- a review period that concludes Saturday. With most members leaving Washington today, any significant effort to block the deal appears dead for now, officials said.

"I do not think there will be any action" to hold up the sale, Rep. Howard Berman, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Bloomberg News Thursday.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, submitted a resolution this week to try and block the deal, and was among those who objected to the way the administration approached the required congressional review.

"Hiding this in a recess announcement is a sign of how unpopular it is," he said. "It's bad policy that now is further tainted by shameful process."

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Mr. Perfect , relation between West and KSA is relation between a Sheep and the Lion ..

Who the fuck you think the Al Saud are ? ?

As Shah said, they take the mouse from tail and out the window ..

Shah the gendarme of ME fell like a rock, Saddam hanged on TV , who the fuck are Al Saud ? ?

There's no arms sells to those sheiks, all this an accounting gimmick .. to recycle the Petro Dollars ..

Basically, they book some scrap metal in American desert to Saudi accounts .. and a few zeros on computer (Saudi petro $ accounts) are eliminated .. nothing moves .. just accounting .. before doing this, Iran shoots a few rockets into different direction, Natanyaoooo said Ahmadi crazy and and and .. Bingo.

West would go bankrupt, if had to deliver goods for those petro dollars ..

So, Relaaaax .. KSA in reality more rotten than Shah and Marcos .. They nobody

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When purchasing American political influence I think the Saudis were surprised at the relatively low price, and being filthy rich (or filthy and rich), the figured why buy one political party when you can buy two.

Obama was put in a situation where he couldn't win. If he didn't allow the sale, the Republicans would have accused him of being an agent of Iran.

At least he didn't do heavy petting and kissing with the Saudi king, like Bush used to do. Now that's a business transaction with a happy ending.

Yes, the "poor, poor Obama" defense. "Poor Obama", intimidated into a policy that 1% of the population is even aware of.

Isn't Turkey getting the JSF?

Why blow up this issue? I thought exports are an area the US need improve, so how does this hurt us?

Is it that the Saudis are so easily hated that we think we've been given free anti-Obama political points? That entire region needs its natural powers to take more active roles in their shared security.

I've wondered if all our adventures, all the expenses and manhunts and regime toppling over there have lowered the cost of entering into the security market for the native powers.