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We are the world arms supplier.

Congress is made of complete boneheads who know only how to steal our money to fund their own interests. If anyone deserves to live on minimum wage and not a penny more it's Congress.

FortWayne says

We are the world arms supplier.

Seems we are arming the world into Cold War II. Since there is no other superpower, we have armed both sides of every conflict (purposely or not), thus preventing one nation from wiping out another. At least with USSR around we only had to supply half the world with arms!

The House of Republicans could have stopped this. They will destroy this country. You Republican voters should continue to vote for these Redistribution Socialist & work harder to pay more taxes that they can give away. roflmao

Left this out.

Damn you Democrats! Still roflmao.

FortWayne says

We are the world arms supplier.

Congress is made of complete boneheads who know only how to steal our money to fund their own interests. If anyone deserves to live on minimum wage and not a penny more it's Congress.

Can we supply the Palestinians, too?

Blurtman says

FortWayne says

We are the world arms supplier.

Congress is made of complete boneheads who know only how to steal our money to fund their own interests. If anyone deserves to live on minimum wage and not a penny more it's Congress.

Can we supply the Palestinians, too?

We do, we supply both sides with arms. It's what we call "good for business".

JH says

You just committed $1 to Israel today

Maybe you don't realize it, but each of us could easily be committing $5.00 per day everyday towards worldwide terrorism through oil purchases. Keeping radicals at bay is probably the best dollar we ever spent.

Blurtman says

Can we supply the Palestinians, too?

Well...

Qatar in particular is Hamas's major international sponsor, supplying the Islamist group with natural gas and several hundred million dollars in cash support. Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has been in Doha over the course of the entire Gaza crisis, and much of Hamas's leadership is based in the Qatari capital.

and

This week, the United States signed a massive armaments agreement with the government of Qatar to sell Apache helicopters, advanced Patriot surface-to-air (SAM), and Javelin handheld ground-to-air defense systems to Doha.

The new Washington-Doha arms deal may complicate the United States’ relationship with Israel and Egypt, as both countries are engaged in an armed conflict against Muslim Brotherhood jihadi groups, such as Hamas.

Clearly we are stimulating our own economy (as nearly all of this money comes back stateside), and continuing to build up Cold War Middle East Style.

http://www.businessinsider.com/proxy-conflicts-in-gaza-2014-8
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/17/US-Signs-11-Billion-Dollar-Weapons-Deal-with-Muslim-Brotherhood-Friendly-Qatar

Strategist says

Keeping radicals at bay is probably the best dollar we ever spent.

We actually send $3 billion to Israel, so $10 a day to keep the other side in check. Then we have to send comparable amounts to everyone surrounding them to keep Israel in check. Then every couple years we send in troops to keep oil fields in check. It's the GOPs way of quietly stimulating the economy through deficit spending while blathering about cuts cuts and more cuts. To be fair, both sides of the aisle do it...

JH says

Strategist says

Keeping radicals at bay is probably the best dollar we ever spent.

We actually send $3 billion to Israel, so $10 a day to keep the other side in check. Then we have to send comparable amounts to everyone surrounding them to keep Israel in check. Then every couple years we send in troops to keep oil fields in check. It's the GOPs way of quietly stimulating the economy through deficit spending while blathering about cuts cuts and more cuts. To be fair, both sides of the aisle do it...

I think we send money to Arab nations to try and keep them under control. Every dollar has been wasted.

Strategist says

Every dollar has been wasted

There are rules on the money. Israel only has to spend something like 50% on American arms, but the other nations have to spend ~90%. So the money does come back. We are basically handing them equipment and keeping Americans employed.

JH says

Strategist says

Every dollar has been wasted

There are rules on the money. Israel only has to spend something like 50% on American arms, but the other nations have to spend ~90%. So the money does come back. We are basically handing them equipment and keeping Americans employed.

That's what it amounts to.

Orthodox judaism vs islam batte is battle of ultra conservative tribes although to be fair orthodox jews are probably 200 years ahead.

I'm rollin with great satan what u wiggaz want?

Israelis are our loyal friends.

The Original Bankster says

Israelis are our loyal friends.

An enemy of an enemy is a friend.

Israelis have rarely so much as wavered in their agreements with us.

It would be difficult to even argue that most Arab states ARENT our enemies. Says a lot about this conflict.

JH says

We actually send $3 billion to Israel, so $10 a day to keep the other side in check.

There is a reason why politicians so vehemently support foreign aid. Here is an old news. This is true for all of those countries.

United States taxpayers have funneled more than $60 billion of aid into Egypt since President Hosni Mubarak came to power in 1981, but more than half of the money has been spent supplying weapons to the country’s military, an arrangement that critics say has benefited American military contractors more than ordinary Egyptians.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2011/02/03/critics_question_billions_in_aid_funneled_back_to_us_contractors/

The Original Bankster says

Israelis are our loyal friends.

Best friends money can buy.

tatupu70 says

The Original Bankster says

Israelis are our loyal friends.

Best friends money can buy.

We send money to Arab nations too. They still hate our guts.

There ought to be a UN resolution embargoing all arms sales to MENA

Or, if that's too harsh, a UN tariff on arms exports to MENA of 300%, which would fund UNICEF and the WHO and shit.

thunderlips11 says

There ought to be a UN resolution embargoing all arms sales to MENA

That would end the ongoing GOP stimulus package and force them to spend money on domestic issues like schools and roads.

thunderlips11 says

Or, if that's too harsh, a UN tariff on arms exports to MENA of 300%, which would fund UNICEF and the WHO and shit.

That would cut too deeply into the corporate profits of aforementioned stimulus.

Strategist says

JH says

Strategist says

Every dollar has been wasted

There are rules on the money. Israel only has to spend something like 50% on American arms, but the other nations have to spend ~90%. So the money does come back. We are basically handing them equipment and keeping Americans employed.

That's what it amounts to.

Not necessarily. There may be H1B's doing the work which means the missiles will probably not work anyway (at least the next revision.)