A GARGANTUAN SAUDI PAYOFF TO BRITAIN, TO THE UNITED STATES...AND TO ISRAEL.

t h i r d r o u g h d r a f t

(Below: The Harmful Idiots and Lebanon.)

INTRODUCTION:

The arms contract described below illustrates how an American Administration totally controls Saudi foreign policy.

Historically, Saudi governments have rarely considered critically any scheme by the harmful idiots, however harmful or sophomoric. They've subscribed to any and all such schemes, while hiding that fact from their public. Large sectors of that public despise the United States. Why? The reasons are many. For one, most recently, consider the Bush administration's sponsorship of Israel’s wholesale killing of Lebanon’s defenseless civilians. Consider Israel's destruction of Lebanon's economy; consider the harmful idiots’ dismantlement of Iraq; consider the American financing of the occupation of Palestinian lands.

It seems that all these policies are meant to force the Arabs to their knees, to make them obedient. Because of its public's disgust with this anti-Arab and anti-Muslim American administration, the Saudi leadership is hiding from its public payments to the United States, the protection money it feels it owes it. The conduit for these payments is BAE Systems, a seemingly British company. But BAE Systems is an American company, too--a fact that had not been well-advertised, especially not to the Saudi public.

BAE Systems, the British-American company, is receiving a minimum of $18.8 billion and a maximum of $70 billion to supply jet fighters to Saudi Arabia, and to maintain them.

But the story doesn't end here. The harmful idiots had devised a scheme to develop an Israel-led anti-Iran Arab front. A laughable idea. But one that the Saudi leadership would have to respect since it comes from an American administration. Accordingly, some of the payments to BAE Systems could make their way to Israel, since the American branch of that company has an office in that country.

In addition, since BAE Systems develops weapons for use in Iraq, one is therefore justified to conclude that Saudi payments to that company help finance in part the occupation by the United States and Britain of that country.

***********************************************************************************

A GARGANTUAN PAYOFF FOR PROTECTION--WHAT PROTECTION?

SaudiPolitics repeatedly had maintained that the gargantuan Saudi arms contracts with Britain concealed payoffs to the United States. Over a year ago, rumors spread of a $70 billion arms contract between Saudi Arabia and Britain. These rumors were later followed by more concrete news reports confirming a gargantuan Saudi arms purchase from Britain. The latest number released about the upcoming Saudi payment to Britain stands at $18.8 billion. According to press reports, that number should double thanks to maintenance contracts extending over a period of twenty five years.

In essence, therefore, day-by-day, we’re inching closer to the rumored $70 billion figure.

It should be noted that Saudi arms purchases are in the spirit of money paid for “protection.”

But how does this confirm SaudiPolitics’ hypothesis that these payments to Britain conceal money to the United States?

The answer came on the pages of The New York Times. ( “British Arms Merchant With Passport to the Pentagon” August 16, 2006, at C1 ) It turns out that the beneficiary of the gargantuan arms contract, BAE Systems, is as much an American company as a British:

Here’s some of what the article says:



“It is hard to tell whether BAE Systems should be flying the Union Jack [Britain’s flag] or waving the Stars and Stripes [U.S. flag].

“BAE, the British military contractor, manages top-secret programs in England and the United States and makes weapons for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is the world’s fourth-largest military contractor and the seventh-biggest in the United States, the only foreign Pentagon supplier to crack the top 10.

“BAE says it’s neither British nor American, but a new breed of military contractor–a trans-Atlantic supplier.”


SAUDI PROBABLE PAYMENTS TO ISRAEL

But Saudi Arabia’s role in the Crater, Sparkling, and Scintillating (think bombs containing uranium and cluster bombs dropped on poor Lebanon) New Middle East is not limited to financing Britain and the United States. The $70 billion Saudi arms contract could be financing the leader of the anti-Iran Arab front. The New York Times, again:

“[BAE]’s American subsidiary, based in Arlington, Virginia, has operations in 36 states as well as England, Sweden, Israel and South Africa..”


*********************************************************************************

THE HARMFUL IDIOTS AND LEBANON

It turns out that the Maronites of Lebanon are fuming at Israel’s destruction of their country’s infrastructure and its economy, and its intentional targeting of civilians in the (harmfully idiotic) hope of turning all against Hezbollah.


I’ve returned from an American town where I talked to Maronites at their church. A good number of them had been on vacation in Lebanon, and had evacuated during the Israeli courageous onslaught on defenseless civilians. At a great risk to their life, they had managed to escape to Damascus.

The American Maronites were angry, very angry, at Israel and its master, the Bush Administration. They all knew that the desperate administration (think Iraq) had asked (in effect)its Israeli bully to mow down defenseless civilians to punish the Shiite community for its support of Hezbollah, and to destroy Lebanon’s economy. Why? The Lebanese Maronites had the answer: the harmful idiots had meant the Israeli devastation of their country as a way to exert pressure on the harmful idiots’ helpless Lebanese agents to move against Hezbollah.

But something good happened, the very opposite of what the harmful idiots had expected. The Bush Administration's Israeli bully united the Lebanese. National unity has never been so strong in the Arab land of the Phoenicians. Worse for the harmful idiots: The Shiites, even those whose allegiance goes to the harmful idiots’ favorite Shiite leader, are now clamoring to join Hezbollah.

Congratulations to Lebanon. It has survived over thirty years of mediocre, moronic and massacre-minded war engineering by harmful idiots.