I continue to be utterly amazed at how many idiotic things the American public can ALLOW the Bush administration to do without raising a HUGE stink and protest.  I don’t expect this to either,  since the majority of folks,  including the media,  fail to seriously question and investigate these utter criminals,  who care nothing for what they call  “security” of the United States, or of the world for that matter.  For Cheney and Bush,  all that matters is what benefits THEM,  and all consequences,  both anticipated and actual,  can be spun and spoon-fed to a brain-dead or brainwashed public,  and let pass by the gutless and advertising driven news media,  without any serious confrontation.

The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq.

All their insane spin about “Al Qaeda in Iraq” is pure scare tactic and manipulation,  considering how the largest supplier of “foreign fighters” in Iraq, by far,  is Saudi-Arabia,  as also were most of the 9/11 suicide crew. (I think 8 of 11 or some such number).  And yet noone called for stern treatment of the Saudis. Why NOT?  Oil,  that’s why. What other reason is there?  How stupid can we be,  to continue to allow this “pretend” leadership to go on?

U.S. Set to Offer Huge Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia – New York Times

An amusing but infuriating sidebar,  from TalkingPointsMemo’s Steve Beren:

But the amusing part of the news is this: “The Saudis had requested that Congress be told about the planned sale, the officials said, in an effort to avoid the kind of bruising fight on Capitol Hill that occurred in the 1980s over proposed arms sales to the kingdom.”

In other words, what does it take to get the Bush administration to communicate with a Democratic Congress about matters of foreign policy? Directives from the Saudis.

the above quote and hat tip for the NYTImes article  linked above from Talking Points Memo |