$20 billion arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and petty sheikhdoms would include truly useless items: hyper-expensive naval vessels, GPS-guided bombs which proved a failure in Iraq due to their small payload, and upgrades to the aircraft the Arabs have no skills to fly, anyway.
Minor Democratic congressmen also decry the arms sale to Saudi Arabia which rids itself of Islamic activists by sending them to fight among Iraqi insurgents. Mainstream Democrats won’t oppose the deal, hugely beneficial to the American military-industrial complex.


