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To: Joe Sixer who wrote (8038)	8/29/2007 4:29:03 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

"but we did rearm them by supplying emergency military equipment to the tune of over 3 billion 1973 dollars." That's a lot 'o bombs and bullets! (I'll take your word for the gross amount... but I'm surprised at the total. Was that all in the emergency re-supply that was pushed through? Or is some of that amount stuff that was approved but never delivered for months or years? I know that the emergency re-supply couldn't for example, get any tanks to the Israelis in that window of opportunity while the war was still raging... because it was all air supply delivery.) "Point being, you can’t play both sides against the middle without it coming back to bite you at some point down the road." On THAT we certainly AGREE! (Still --- if the main goal was simply to slip a lot 'o dough to American military industries --- one could argue that shipping to BOTH sides in wars makes a HELL of a lot of sense! AND is likely to produce even more dividends for them in the future - by way of more wars. :-)