Weapons Deal for Saudis Pure Madness

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Go figure: From the White House comes the news that self-styled anti-terrorism crusader President George W. Bush wants to sell $20 billion in high-tech military equipment to Saudi Arabia, the source of most of the financing and 15 of the 19 hijackers for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

The justification can't be that this is yet another boondoggle for the military-industrial complex - the big winner in the war on terror - so we are told instead that the Sunni-dominated Saudi kingdom needs this weaponry to withstand a future challenge from those dastardly Shiite fellows in Iran.

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Weapons Deal for Saudis Pure Madness

Yes, the very same extremists whose surrogates are now, as a consequence of the U.S. invasion, pretending to be the indigenous government of Iraq. Recall that the Shiite militants who rule Tehran...

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