Death for Sale!

Proving for the millionth time, that American foreign policy is 100% stupid, news came out today about a huge arms deal. When you hear the words arms dealer, it generally congers up images of some shady yet slick dude with a ridiculous gold watch, arriving on a plane full of guns. He steps off of the plane strokes his greasy mustache and opens the plane's cargo hold so his customer can inspect the newly arrived instruments of death. He is paid for the high quality arms he has brought and turns to go home, with no remorse for what those weapons may do to people at the hands of his customer. Most people would think, hey that guy is the bottom rung of society, he doesn't care how many die as long as he turns a quick buck. It may surprise you o know that that remorseless slimeball's name is Sam, Uncle Sam. Between 1998 and 2005 the United States government sold $109 billion dollars in weapons to other countries, and that's just what's on the books. 109 BILLION dollars! Is it just me or is that crazy. That officially makes Uncle Sam the world largest arms dealer. In that time period the UK was a distant second at 39 Billion. These facts have com to light today after an announcement today that we will be upping the ante. We will be increasing arms shipments to Israel to the tune of 30 billion dollars over the next 5 years and to make it even better we will also be sending 20 billion dollars worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, a country who has been roundly criticized by Amnesty International as one of the top human rights violators. Let me say that again, we are sending 20 billion dollars in weapons to one of the world's worst human rights violators. What is wrong with us? These weapons are not just guns and bullets either, they are missiles, helicopter gunships, and fighter planes. I seem to remember when the CIA supplied training and weapons to another group in the middle east. They were fighting our sworn enemies the Soviets in Afghanistan. They were the Taliban, including Osama Bin Laden. We all know where that go us. It seems that we have done this more than once with horrible blow back. Remember when Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurds. I'll be damned if we didn't provide him with those weapons. I don't understand how the politicians in Washington cant see that this is policy of exporting death is a downright stupid and disastrous idea. If you ask me its because they owe favors to weapons makers. In the end it is all about money, it always is. Please contact your congressmen and let them know that you will not tolerate this deadly policy.