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Great, at least we will know what weapons are being used to kill Americans in Iraq... We made them!!! Fuck, Bush would have sold weapons to the Third Reich in the middle of WWII if he had been alive and President. Anything for a buck!!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | July 30, 2007 9:39 AM
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CtYY @ 1,

Funny you should mention that. Isn't that what Granpappy Prescott Bush did right up until the US entered WWII?

Posted by Original Andrew | July 30, 2007 11:26 AM
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Well, the War did prevent Prescott from doing as much business with the Reich as he would have liked. I would LOVE to know what he was able to do with the Reich after the US entered though....

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | July 30, 2007 11:39 AM
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Saudia Arabia? I thought it was Saudi Arabia ...

That said, they still provide more than 90 percent of all money and volunteers for al-Qaeda worldwide. The Iraq branch is a home grown affiliation group, so they are an exception (except for the money and weaponry).

Two of our supposed allies - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia - are directly responsible for creating, providing religious backing and perverted teachings for, and assisting directly and indirectly al-Qaeda by actions.

Actions. The things that matter.

They are NOT our friends.

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 30, 2007 11:54 AM
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Additionally, Will --

In deposing Saddam, Bush has to make nice and support majority Shiites in Iraq after reign of minority Sunni government under Sadaam.

The problem is that Iran, our enemy, is also majority Shiite.

The Iraqi Sunnis form a large part of the post-war insurgency. All of the US's Middle Eastern allies (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, and eastward - Pakistan, Afghanistan, India) are all majority Sunni Muslim.

If Saddam had been a Shia, the arms sales wouldn't seem nearly so ironic.

This U Texas Libraries map is from 1995

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/muslim_distribution.jpg

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale | July 30, 2007 2:43 PM
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"Selling the public airways" would involve the FAA and the airlines. The auction tomorrow is for public airwaves.

Posted by lostboy | July 30, 2007 4:12 PM
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