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US arms sales to OPEC at risk over oil | ||
2008-04-25 | ||
WASHINGTON - A group of U.S. senators on Thursday will call on the Bush administration to use its leverage with OPEC to increase oil supplies or risk Congress holding up multimillion-dollar arms deals with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other members of the cartel.
The Bush administration has notified Congress it plans to sell Saudi Arabia bomb-guidance kits worth about $120 million. The administration also wants to sell the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait advanced antimissile systems, as part of a potential $10 billion arms package to Gulf Arab states. "The Bush administration has refused to be tough with so-called OPEC allies and in fact continues to provide huge arms deals, despite the economic pains taxpayers are feeling," the senators stated in the advisory. The senators sending the letter were Democrats Charles Schumer of New York, Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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Posted by:Steve White |
#5 I agree with #1 - where are the views of these bas$$$$s regarding exploration/drilling/production at home? How do they vote about adding additional refining capabilities? If I were George Bush, I'd be screaming about locking up our production capabilities while we're all being screwed at the pump, and demanding that Congress open up the Gulf of Mexico, California coast, several places in Alaska, and anything we find on the Atlantic seaboard. I'd make sure the greens were to blame for most of the high costs of gasoline, utilities, food, and anything else, and I'd detail, down to individuals, who is stopping what, and why. I'd be harping about nuclear energy, new refineries, and anything else I could think of that would supplement what we currently have, and ease prices. I'd also be screaming about how Congress is holding up arms sales that keep Americans employed, how they're interfering with trade with Latin America that would actually increase US exports, and generally taking it to the Donks and their failed policies they demand be given a second chance (where they will once more fail). John McCain needs to be on the same bandwidth. The Repuglycons are stupid if they don't. |
Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-04-25 14:57 |
#4 OK. Jack up the prices on the arms since they're so flush with cash. |
Posted by: Geoffro 2008-04-25 12:42 |
#3 ..Believe it or not, this might actually rattle their cages, however slightly. The Arab countries want nothing but the BEST for the Princes to fly around with - and they will not buy that Mike |
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2008-04-25 11:37 |
#2 I thought the arms deals generated income for us? |
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-04-25 09:33 |
#1 A group of U.S. senators on Thursday will call on the Bush administration to use its leverage with OPEC to increase oil supplies Anyone check the voting records of those Senators on supporting drilling and exploration in our own territories? We won't even raise the issue of wind farms. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-04-25 09:30 |