bushmanbilly
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Post by bushmanbilly on Feb 1, 2013 14:40:28 GMT -5
Did your government just approve sending 20 F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks to Egypt? You folks are nuckin futs!!!!! Who in there right minds would do that?
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Post by Toad on Feb 1, 2013 16:28:04 GMT -5
I don't see that anywhere...
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snowdog
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Post by snowdog on Feb 1, 2013 17:12:20 GMT -5
not sure it was 20 -- thought it was 4 ;D & tanks ( we put in the "secret" control boxes so we can guide them where we want !!! ;D ;D ;D ;D --- what better way to get rid of the ones that were "seconds" with defaults! ;D
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bushmanbilly
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Post by bushmanbilly on Feb 1, 2013 17:35:30 GMT -5
rt.com/usa/news/obama-fighter-jets-egypt-856/Despite instability due to the new Islamic government in Egypt, the US is sending more than 20 F-16 fighter jets to Egypt as part of a $1 billion foreign aid package. The first four Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets are set to arrive in Egypt on Jan. 22, an unnamed source told Fox News. Although Egypt already has more than 200 such planes and the latest delivery fulfills an order placed two years ago when former President Hosni Mubarak was still in power, the protests and widespread instability in Egypt have caused some to wonder if providing jets at this time is a bad idea. The new Islamic president, Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, has recently made political moves that have fueled anger and criticism both in the West and among secular Egyptians. Mass demonstrations are currently taking place in Cairo and several other Egyptian cities against Morsi’s decision to hold a referendum on a pro-Islamist constitution. Secular, liberal and Christian groups are demanding that Morsi cancel this referendum. Groups in opposition to the referendum are due to converge on the presidential palace. The opposition has already breached a barrier outside the palace, but has been unable to pass the wall of concrete blocks and tanks that guard its perimeter. Still, several thousand are protesting in the presidential compound after being let in by the Republican Guard. In the days leading up the referendum, Morsi authorized his military to secure state buildings and arrest civilians. Six Egyptian Air Force F-16 fighter jets also flew symbolically over Cairo on Monday, military sources told DEBKAfile.
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bushmanbilly
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Post by bushmanbilly on Feb 1, 2013 17:39:36 GMT -5
www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2013/January/US-Gives-F-16-Jets-to-Egypt-Despite-Morsi-Flap/The U.S. will give more high-tech F-16s, along with 200 Abrams tanks, to Egypt this year as part of a foreign aid package. Some members of Congress have said the United States shouldn't go through with the deal, given Morsi's remarks. "It is appalling that the Obama administration would send F-16s and 200 military tanks to Egypt in the wake of the instability, [and the] anti-American and anti-Israel atmosphere," Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told Fox News.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 1, 2013 17:49:08 GMT -5
CRAZY!!!
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Post by texaswoodie on Feb 1, 2013 20:24:54 GMT -5
Did your government just approve sending 20 F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks to Egypt? You folks are nuckin futs!!!!! Who in there right minds would do that? Only 52% of us are nucking futs. Curt
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Post by Rockoonz on Feb 2, 2013 18:25:34 GMT -5
If you factor in only 60% of eligible voters actually voted then it's more like 31%, minus dead people and illegals.
Lee
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robsrockshop
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Post by robsrockshop on Feb 3, 2013 9:05:12 GMT -5
"Who in their right minds" That pretty much explains it.
There's more going on than just that, the US is putting troops in every African country and building a drone base.
Pretty much resource wars. It's kinda like this.......If the US doesn't end up with it China will. 2 different approaches, China is trying to buy it, US is trying to blow it up and steal it.
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