Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States wants to send $63 billion in military aid and weapons to the Middle East to “bolster forces of moderation and support a broader strategy to counter the negative influences of Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran.”
Having destroyed Iraq to save us from horrors that did not exist, Rice now wants to save us from Iran’s future nukes by selling weapons of mass destruction.
Over the next decade, the Bush administration wants to give Israel $30 billion in military aid, a nearly 43 percent increase over what that nation received over the last 10 years, according to The New York Times. [Plus] $20 billion to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, [and] Egypt $13 billion.
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“Justifying the sales because these countries feel threatened by Iran doesn’t hold water. Iran is five to 10 years away from a nuclear weapon. That gives the United States and its partners more than enough time to come up with diplomatic solutions,” Frida Berrigan, senior program associate at the Arms and Security Project of the New America Foundation said. “This is just going to reinforce Iran’s desire to have a nuclear weapon.”
[Excerpt of an article by Derrick Z. Jackson, The Boston Globe]
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