Bush Arming Terrorists

I'll be glad when Barack Obama is president and we can start calling Saudi Arabia a terrorist supporting state again. Mark my word, just like when Republicans are out of power they all of a sudden become "fiscally responsible conservatives" again, once Obama is president they will start calling supplying Saudi Arabia with nuclear weapons a terrorist supporting activity.

From the WSJ:

Last month, while the American people were becoming the personal ATMs of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Saudi Arabia signing away an even more valuable gift: nuclear technology. In a ceremony little-noticed in this country, Ms. Rice volunteered the U.S. to assist Saudi Arabia in developing nuclear reactors, training nuclear engineers, and constructing nuclear infrastructure. While oil breaks records at $130 per barrel or more, the American consumer is footing the bill for Saudi Arabia's nuclear ambitions.

I cannot imagine what super tough guy Bill O'Reilly would say if President Obama gave nuclear weapons intelligence and materials to the country where 15 of the 19 hijackers came from. I know über patriot Sean Hannity would never let it slide that a Democratic president was supplying the largest state sponsor of terrorism with WMD capabilities. And the drug addicted Rush Limbaugh would have his millions of followers in a panic if Obama was aiding and abetting terrorism.

But not George Bush and not when it's Republicans. Because to clowns like O'Reilly and Hannity, Limbaugh and Hugh Hewitt, it's perfectly alright for George Bush to give WMD to Saudi Arabia. They care more about flag pin lapels and tough macho war talk and terrorist fist jabs than about national security. Bush can run up the largest deficit in our nation's history; invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11; openly supply the country where 15 of the 19 hijackers came from with WMD capabilities while we pay them $4 damn dollars a gallon for gasoline, and not a word from the right wing about any of it. This shouldn't surprise any of us. After all it was the American Right Wing Idol Ronald Reagan that also armed Iran, the country the Republicans want to attack next.