Iran might turn the tables on the USA in the Gulf of Hormuz, but Saudi Arabia is equally capable of becoming a turn-coat as America further disgraces itself around the globe. Bush’s weak attempts to please everybody in the Middle-East is being taken as a diplomatic joke in both Washington and in the Bedouin tents of the Arabian desert. You can't run with the foxes and also hunt with the hounds.* Will this arms sale increase democracy in Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East? No.
* Will this arms sale increase the opportunity for the advancement of human rights in Saudi Arabia [and] in the broader Middle East? No.
* Will this arms sale increase stability in the Middle East, in the Gulf states? No.
* Will this arms sale increase security for Israel against the threat from Iran, as Bush lamely claims? No.
* Is it correct to assume, as Bush asserts, that his pet Attack Dog (Israel) is the model for Human Rights in the region? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [choke]
All this, despite the fact Saudi Arabia is, in Bush's terms, exporting more and more terrorism. At least 50 percent of the budget of Hamas comes from Saudi Arabia. I’ll show my hand here too – I don’t obediently swallow Bush's propaganda that Hamas is a terrorist organisation. They have the right and the integrity to be labeled as “Freedom Fighters”. They are the legally elected representatives of Palestinians, after all, even though that democratic decision didn’t suit Bush’s agenda.
If America has learned anything from Iraq and Afghanistan, it is that today’s allies can morph into tomorrow’s enemies all too easily. The CIA funded and armed bin Laden in the 1980s against the Russians in Afghanistan, and he later turned on them. That could easily happen again, this time with Saudi Arabia – despite this latest arms deal appeasement (=bribery?). Yet Bush continues to arm the Saudis to the teeth, despite the fact that they’ve done little to stabalise oil prices, oppose terrorism in the Middle-East, or permit their women to vote or obtain driving licenses.
Senators Robert Wexler and Anthony Weiner are among 51 Democrats (and one courageous Republican!) pointing at Bush’s glaring hypocrisy on the JDAM arms sale (Joint Direct Attack Munitions).
Bush claims steps will be taken to ensure that the weapons for Saudi Arabia would not pose a threat to Israel or weaken Israel's qualitative regional military advantage. (All together now: Ha. Ha.) 
As usual the media has failed to point out the elephant in the room: this is nothing but another sales campaign in a renewed arms race. It pays Bush to selectively lie in order to secure arms sales to both sides of the conflict.
He’s using the age-old salesman strategy of suggesting to both Israel and the Saudis that they need to “keep up with the Jonses”. [Sound FX of cash register]. And we note that it is in the interests of the world’s biggest arms supplier to start and maintain as many wars as it can possibly manage.Quote – “Ah’m a warrr prsdnt”.
Ain’t Capitalism grand? And you wonder why I often mock Corporate Globalisation. And as for the Saudis, it also comes down to a basic moral choice between Allah and Moolah. So far, we know which one's winning, but that can all change in a heartbeat if there were to be a change of King (or a change of heart - or an assassination) within the Saudi royal family. It is now up to the US Congress to decide whether to ratify this latest Saudi arms deal. Congress does have that discretion, but it is up YOU to protest. How loudly can the Amerkin public roar NO?
And to help you roar, here are some of the dubm thangs the Global Village Idiot has actually said: You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
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The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.
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[to Brazilian president Fernando Cardoso] Do you have blacks, too?
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I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.
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I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president.
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First, let me make it very clear -- poor people aren't necessarily killers.
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We had a chance to visit with Teresa Nelson who's a parent, and a mom or dad.
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Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
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It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way.
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We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates.
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We need to apply 21st century information technology to the health care field. We need to have our medical records put on the I.T.
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I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the Mother in me.
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Will the highways on the internet become more few? [Shouldn't that be "the internets?"]
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I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his
hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.
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I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure.
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The truth of the matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam would still be in power if he were president of the United States, and the world would be a lot better off.
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We are working hard to convince both the Indians and the Pakis there's a way to deal with their problems without going to war.
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My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the -- in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen.
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First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.
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I want to thank my friend, Senator Bill Frist, for joining us today....He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.
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There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.
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A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
.... Amerrka needs a prsdnt whose compitent in at least wun langwidge.
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