'Bush sold Arab states arms in violation of deal with Israel'

[kpete]

Source: Haaretz

Last update - 09:34 10/01/2010
'Bush sold Arab states arms in violation of deal with Israel'
By Barak Ravid and Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondents


The Bush administration violated security related agreements with Israel in which the U.S. promised to preserve the IDF's qualitative edge over Arab armies, according to senior officials in the Obama administration and Israel.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak traveled to the U.S. in September for a rushed meeting in which it was agreed that the two allies would discuss how to resolve the problems regarding this issue.

U.S. National Security Adviser General James Jones is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Tuesday for what is likely to be talks on the issue of the IDF's qualitative edge.

Senior sources in the current U.S. administration, and senior officials at the foreign and defense ministries in Israel, have suggested that during the last year of the Bush administration the U.S. sold advanced military equipment to moderate Arab states - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. The Americans justified the arms sales with the need to bolster these countries against the perceived threat posed by Iran.

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1141433.html

[sabra]

1. but but but Bush loved Israel and Obama is a Muslim...

:sarcasm: freepers heads exploding as we speak

[kpete]

2. hey sabra...

happiest of new year's to you and yours, in spite of this crazy country we live in,
peace, kp

[sabra]

7. hey there...

thanks and the same to you! 2009 was a wild one, I expect nothing different for 2010.

:hug:

[Sanity Claws]

3. Republicans are tied into the war machine

What better way to keep the war going and prop up the war machine than to arm all sides?

[SpiralHawk]

4. "We Republicons have our own 'special' loyalties. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[SpiralHawk]

5. "You betcha. Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

[katkat]

6. Good for Bush, he did at least one thing right

Not one more cent or military aid to Israel until it gets the hell out of Gaza and the West Bank.

[MidwestTransplant]

10. Did you read the article?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. gee what a surprise

totally consistent with his track record of making promises and then turning around and breaking them... too many to count, and I know I'm not even up on all of it.

*I especially remember one nauseating article in Mother Jones explaining how he spoke at a school in Norht Carolina (? or South?... I'm sketchy on the details), soothing them in unctuous folksy tones about school programs he was committed to enacting/protecting (because he's the edumacation prezident, you know...)

And then, cutting the very self-same program straight away, back in DC.

*VOMIT*

[MidwestTransplant]

9. I guess Bush liked his Arab benefactors more than Israel. Money is stronger than Fundamentalism.