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The United States obviously will never learn from her past. With the state of world affairs, a failing Iraq, Iran looming as a threat, our president still manages to find time to bow down in the Saud thrown rooms. Bush is brokering deals that help no one but terrorists and the Saudis themselves. How naive our government still is and our president who once said that he knew better and would never deal with terrorists, or terror sponsoring states. Bush has rescinded. Of course in the wake of this is the dissing of Israel.

Never say never:

The Bush administration’s plans for a giant package of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and military aid to Israel ran into congressional opposition at the weekend, with some congressmen vowing to introduce legislation to block the proposal.

The deal, due to be announced this morning ahead of a trip to the Middle East by Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, is expected to include $20bn (€14.7bn, £9.9bn) in advanced arms for Saudi Arabia and five other Gulf countries, offset by $30bn in aid to Israel.

It is being presented as part of an effort by the Bush administration to counter the rising influence of Iran. Another part of the package will be military assistance worth some $13bn in the next decade for Egypt.

And the hack Prime Minister Olmert is is obvious by his satisfaction with this deal. Dumb is as dumb does:

The Saudi package is expected to upgrade the country’s missile defences and air force and increase its naval capabilities.

Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister, signalled satisfaction with the proposed deal on Sunday. He said he and President George W. Bush had agreed in talks at the White House last month that Israel would receive $30bn in US military aid over the next decade, averaging $3bn a year.

“This is an increase of 25 per cent for the military aid to Israel from the United States,” he said.

Thank God there are some in Congress that are still thinking, but then who knows how long this will last in these days of insanity and political bias:

Anthony Weiner and Jerrold Nadler, Democratic congressmen, said they would introduce legislation to block the deal “the minute Congress is officially notified”.

Saudi Arabia had “not been a true ally in furthering the United States’ interests in the Middle East”, they said in a statement.

Congressman Roy Blunt, Republican House whip, said getting the deal through Congress would be “a challenge”.

“The Saudis have looked the other way for a long time on the issue of terrorism,” he said. Although some progress had been made, the Saudis had “not done all they could do” to prevent funding from reaching terrorist groups.

Should for some strange reason of fate this pass - our life will change and we will have empowered al-Qaeda. But our politicians will not come out and say that and the president will never tell us the “real” truth. Bush lost that ability some place between the 2004 elections and deciding that it was fine to deal with terror groups - Hamas and the Fatah.

Never say never.

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