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On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:38:31 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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It keeps the manufacturing lines staffed and operating until we need
them
in the next war.


I assume you're being saracastic or stupid, since there is NEVER a good
reason to sell weapons to our enemies.


FDR sold a lot of stuff to the Soviets in the early 40s. I guess it
never occured to him that they would ever be our enemy. I suppose the
same thing hapened to Reagan when he was selling stingers to the
Afghans or most of Western Europe when they were selling all sorts of
weapons and technology to Saddam.

Political alliances come and go but business goes on forever.

The only problem with this war is we are employing more people in Iraq
than we are here.


We know the Saudis are our enemies, and we still sell them weapons. Not a
good comparison to FDR.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/wo...2fighters.html

The Saudi royal families provide direct financial support to clerics and
schools which train these fighters. We pay them to do this through
"commissions" the royals demand for allowing us to sell them weapons.