[lit-ideas] Re: Spreading the Love!
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:14:20 -0400
This is all part of their autocratic style. They just lay down the law and
expect everybody to knuckle under. John Dean talks about that in his book,
Conservatives Without Conscience.
> [Original Message]
> From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 7/29/2006 6:07:32 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Spreading the Love!
>
> (Who says the USA isn't the Country of Peace and Love? This will increase
the peace of the
> region. -- andreas)
>
>
> US Plans $4.6 Billion in Mideast Arms Sales
>
> Friday 28 July 2006. Washington - The Bush administration spelled out
plans on Friday to
> sell $4.6 billion of arms to moderate Arab states, including battle tanks
worth as much as
> $2.9 billion to protect critical Saudi infrastructure. The announcement
came two weeks after
> the administration said it would sell Israel its latest supply of JP-8
aviation fuel valued
> at up to $210 million to help Israeli warplanes "keep peace and security
in the region."
>
> The United States also rushed a delivery of precision-guided bombs
requested by Israel
> after launching its airstrikes against Hizbollah fighters in Lebanon 17
days ago, The New
> York Times reported last week. In the newly proposed sales to Arab
states, UH-60M Black Hawk
> helicopter gunships worth up to $808 million would go to the United Arab
Emirates, while
> AH-64 Apache helicopters worth as much as $400 million would go to Saudi
Arabia. Bahrain
> would also get Black Hawk helicopters, valued at up to $252 million.
Jordan would get a
> potential $156 million in upgrades to 1,000 of its M113A1 armored
personnel carriers.
> Javelin anti-tank missiles valued at up to $48 million would go to Oman
under the deals put
> forward by the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which
administers U.S.
> government-to-government arms sales. The $2.9 billion Saudi deal involves
the sale of 58
> older-generation U.S. M1A1 Abrams tanks that would be modernized. Also,
315 Saudi-owned,
> newer-model, Abrams tanks would be improved with such things as
air-conditioning and
> infrared sights for the commanders as well as the gunners.
>
> The project's prime contractor would be General Dynamics Corp.'s Land
Systems business
> unit of Sterling Heights, Michigan, the Pentagon said in a notice to
Congress required by
> law. Vehicle "teardown" and final reassembly would be carried out in
Saudi Arabia, the
> notice said. The upgraded configuration is known as the M1A2S, in which
the S stands for
> Saudi. "The proposed sale and upgrade will allow Saudi Arabia to operate
and exercise a more
> lethal and survivable M1A2S tank for the protection of critical
infrastructure," it said. It
> also would keep a substantial number of tanks in the region that have "a
high degree of
> commonality" with the U.S. tank fleet, the Pentagon said, referring to
interchangeable
> parts.
>
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