tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post2062573222467480585..comments2024-01-17T09:33:57.158-08:00Comments on Brain Rage: Sell Those GunsJBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-2167820804096999772008-08-01T14:13:00.000-07:002008-08-01T14:13:00.000-07:00I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that our forei...I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that our foreign aid dollars are tied to manditory purchases of American-made weapons; it's a huge business and I'm sure they're paying a lot of lobbyists a lot of money to make sure it happens. The prominence of the UAE on that list surprised me too but they live in a dangerous part of the world and they have plenty of cash, so they probably just figured, "Why not?"JBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-23696887418782237152008-08-01T09:05:00.000-07:002008-08-01T09:05:00.000-07:00From what I understand, the same is true with the ...From what I understand, the same is true with the money that is given to Colombia. They buy arms from us from money that we give them under the pretenseful stipulations of "Plan Colombia" . That came to be under the Clinton administration, albeit a republican congress.Intrepid Californiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07724792677602043068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-78154397984067351812008-08-01T07:11:00.000-07:002008-08-01T07:11:00.000-07:00What does the UAE need with all that? I was going...What does the UAE need with all that? I was going to respond with some blowhardy statement about guns being what made our great country, blah blah blah... but the longer I read, and the more I thought about it, the more it kind of bothered me that this is such a big industry for us. Guns mean bad things, boys and girls.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com