what do Bush-conservatives stand for?

[joblo7]

ONCE AGAIN LET ME POINT OUT THAT CONTRARY TO NEWS FLASHES, THERE IS no war in iraq, afghanistan.

 

'history' may record it as such, but historians are historically the biggest whores.....

 

oil .

 

we need to control the price of oil..

 

its the biggest game on the ball and we got the most guns..

 

we are misguided..

[mattp]

With White House Push, U.S. Arms Sales Rise Sharply

New York Times, September 13, 2008

 

“This is not about being gunrunners,” said Bruce S. Lemkin, the Air Force deputy under secretary who is helping to coordinate many of the biggest sales. “This is about building a more secure world.”

 

Not surprisingly, two of the biggest new American arms customers are Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

Just in the past two years, Iraq has signed more than $3 billion of sales agreements — and announced plans to buy perhaps as much as $7 billion more in American equipment, financed by its rising oil revenues.

 

. . .

 

Over the past three years, the United States government, separately, has agreed to buy more than $10 billion in military equipment and weapons on behalf of Afghanistan, according to Defense Department records, including M-16 rifles and C-27 military transport aircraft.

[mattp]

Will our "conservative" friends, Fairweather, KK, JayB or Peter Puget argue that these arms sales are a good idea? You lefties?

 

From tanks, helicopters and fighter jets to missiles, remotely piloted aircraft and even warships, the Department of Defense has agreed so far this fiscal year to sell or transfer more than $32 billion in weapons and other military equipment to foreign governments, compared with $12 billion in 2005.

 

the list of nations that rely on the United States as a primary source of major weapons systems has greatly expanded. Among the recent additions are Argentina, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Georgia, India, Iraq, Morocco and Pakistan, according to sales data through the end of last month provided by the Department of Defense.

 

It seems to me there is a high likelihood that at least some of these sales are going to come back to bite us.

[joblo7]

THE ITALIAN MAFIA HAD A REAL HARD TIME DIVERSIFYING ALSO.

THUGS ARE LAZY.