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Thursday, April 24, 2008
We need oil more than they need guns posted by Dookie The Webmaster 6:10 AM US Sen Dems To Threaten Arms Deals Unless OPEC Boosts Output U.S. Senate Democrats are taking a tough line with OPEC as oil prices surge to record highs, and plan on Thursday to threaten to hold up arms deals with Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations unless the oil-producing countries agree to increase oil production. Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., plan to call on President George W. Bush and his administration to "use its leverage" with OPEC nations or "risk Congress holding up multi-million dollar arms deals." The strategy will be unveiled at a press conference on Thursday at 11:30 a.m. EDT. Earlier this year, the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ignored Bush's request to increase production in order to bring down U.S. gasoline prices. Most recently, Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, over the weekend said it had no plans to increase production capacity beyond the amount it is already pursuing for several years until it gets clearer signs about future consumption. Not gonna work. Nice try though Permalink :: 3 comments :: Post a Comment




	Saudi Arabia To USA. Go screw yourselves.You won't sell me arms? I'll just go to China. posted by Ted at 9:32 AM


	Ted - I agree. If they don't get them from us, they'll just go elsewhere. Makes no difference to them. Also, shouldn't we be pushing back on arms deals just because they're wrong to begin with? These things always come back to bite us in the butt. We used to give arms to the Taliban, bin Laden, and Hussein. That worked well, didn't it? posted by Jenna at 9:36 AM


	When the Saudis start buying MIGs, capable and half the price of overpriced U.S. subsidized tin, then the gigs really up. Our arms sales, real "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" deals all around will change to a high ho and fuck you U.S. from one of our only types of friends these days, tyranical dictatorships. Everybody else has hated us for ever and now it's fashionable to let it show. What's next, another of our bought and paid for "friends" Israel, buying MIGs too? posted by Anonymous at 11:28 PM