Today's the perfect day for a Bushco news dump.

[Bozita]

Local teevee news will be reporting from the malls on the post-Xmas sales. The network newscasts will be wall-to-wall Bhutto. The newschannels will be inflating their fear balloons.

America's news media will be busy.

Nothing will be noticed.

And life in America will go on.

[tekisui]

1. Like this? chimpy set to go forward with arms sale to Saudis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A plan to sell Saudi Arabia highly accurate Boeing Co bomb-guidance kits is roiling Israel's backers in the Congress, setting up a potential clash with President George W. Bush.

The administration could formally notify lawmakers as soon as January 15 of the possible sale to Riyadh of Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAM, technology.

As many as 253 members of the 435-seat House of Representatives have signed bipartisan warnings to Bush about such a sale to Saudi Arabia, still in a formal state of war with Israel.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071227/pl_nm/arms_saudi_usa_dc

[Bozita]

2. Yup, like that.

Scary stuff.

[old guy]

3. Question: Does this require congressional approval?

[TahitiNut]

4. Not unless Congress legislates an embargo - remember Iran/Contra?

Iran/Contra was the Reagan Administration's way to tell Congress to "fuck off" when Congress prohibited funding of Contra (anti-Sandinista) militants in Nicaragua. Funding of the Nicaraguan rebels had been made illegal through the Boland Amendment.

How soon we forget.

[old guy]

8. Too bad. Thanks for the info.

[SpiralHawk]

5. "They are my intimate buddies, um hum. Smirk." - Commander AWOL

"Even though almost all of the 9/11 hijackers who attacked America on 9/11 were Saudis, the bin Laden Boy-Os and I remain on intimate terms because they know (as do we republicon occultist chickenhawks) that MONEY TALKS. Smirk, smirk, smirk."

- Commander AWOL

[Didereaux]

7. Wonder how Jerusalem Joe Limpbrain feels about this?

[malaise]

6. The timing is absolutely perfect

just in time for the terra before the primaries