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US To Send Four F-16s To Egypt
We have only one question regarding this just released news...
Pentagon plans to send Egypt four F-16 fighter jets in the coming weeks: U.S. official #breaking
— Reuters US News (@ReutersUS) July 10, 2013
... And that would be: WHO gets the jets? The overthrown president, formerly fully endorsed and supported by the US, or the non-MB forces that last week staged a coup in the US-supported country?
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We are from the USA... And we are here to help!
What, no ketchup to go with those soon-to-be-fried Egyptians?
Which countries is USA NOT engaged in?
Section 508 of the Foreign Assistance Act stipulates that “none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended to finance directly any assistance to any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by a military coup or decree.” A clause in the 2011 omnibus bill strengthens the provision, excluding from American aid any nation experiencing a “coup d’etat or decree in which the military plays a decisive role.”
Two abused words: Executive Order.
Next up: Recoup.
Coup and Recoup were sittin' on a log...
Who in Egypt will we send them to? I hope it's not that guy who takes your picture with a camel in front of the pyramids.
The Egyptian military has been aligned with the people who run the US the whole time. The Egyptian Military was never aligned with the Morsi Administration. The Morsi administration was allowed at Obama's request, and the Military was told to stand down for awhile and behave and that later we would send them some F-16's for their trouble. Since the Egyptian military honored their commitments to the people who run the US and have since overthrown Mursi, they are getting their F-16's as promised. The one unsolved item that remains is that it is looking more and more likely that the ones who run the US & the US military are not aligned with the Obama regime, but we are just gonna have to wait and see how that one shakes out.
The Administration may not have the backing of the Armed Forces, but they have the full support of Northrup Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon, Halliburton, Xe...
Whatever happened to the simplicity of sending a nice gift basket? You know, like one of those cheese and sausage xmas thingies from the mall with a nice, hand-written note.
Whatever happened to the simplicity of sending a nice gift basket? You know, like one of those cheese and sausage xmas thingies from the mall, along with a nice hand-written note.
What a quaint history lesson, "Section 508" sounds like one of those things they used to have, I believe they were called "laws". These were rules that everyone had to follow, decided by a body of men chosen by the people to represent them. If anyone in the country didn't obey these so-called "laws" then they suffered the consequences. There was something called The Department of Justice that was in charge of making sure everyone followed these "laws" or else they went to prison.
But we have a much better system today: a few of the country's richest men decide what they want to do and they tell the King. They keep a few of the old so-called "laws" around to make sure no one can challenge them.
Well, the chief of everything won't say whether it was or was not a coup coup coup coup de coup.
merci beaucoup
We're America and you will get the democracy that we say you get. Don't go trying to get it on your own. We have that shit copyrighted.
They can hang them on this one. There is no clearer violation of law than doing this.
Or is there "No controlling legal authority" on this too?
Bullish for bananas for this "republic."
pods
Ahahaha... laws; that civilized relic...
You can't blame the addict.....right.....?
Do jets count as "funds" ?
Who is going to pay for the pre-owned F-16s? If they're free, then can I please have one? It will look awesome next to the ceramic gnomes in my garden.
I would park it in my front yard pointing the guns at my neighbor's bathroom window just to give him the shits.
Occasionally would climb in and make ratta-tat-tat noises.
Could ignite the afterburners on chilly mornings to take frost off the lillies.
soon, ready to take off form the Tarmac..
F16's and Wti, all aboard
tyler is putting out a highly correlated chart showing a $1 dollar increase in oil prices for every 4 f16s sent abroad..........
Liechtenstein.
Democracy = No Control by US
Military Dictatorship = Suez Control
Gee I wonder which one the US wil choose????
Damn IT, I ASKED FOR DRONES...you MORONS!!
So send 'em Plugs and Kohn to speak at every last Rotary luncheon in the country (or equivalent)
SNOROM uoy SENORD... back at ya!
Saw this story today about an Egyptian Soldier who allegedly is sniping people off and kills the guy filming the incident. It's all BS watch the video. This soldier never fires one round. No smoke, flash or heat distortion can be seen from the barrel let alone any recoil. Looks to me like this soldier is trying to figure out where what sounds like gunshots are coming from and I believe the soldier finally finds the source which happens to be in the same direction as the camera itself.
Not to mention snipers don't use an AK-47 they use the AK-74.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2359259/Photographer-captures-DE...
Good thing we're liberating the people from that tyrant!! This is a humanitarian crisis and it is the USA's responsibility to go in there and do the right thing!
So..... does Egypt have oil by chance?
Will Obama show up in a flight suit and bicycle helmet?
bread helmet...
"Let me be clear, my hat is, um, bread."
At least he uses 'Chicago Style' pizza dough...
Thick, fat and all shot full of holes
Fuggin' awesome what a community can do once its been organized.
PS I can only imagine how much the electronics in those Falcons been backdoored... LOL
I eat more Falcon any man's ever seen...
WWJMD?
show him the way to the next whiskey bar & he'll demonstrate that for you...
When he says, "Let me be clear", prepare for bullshit.
...and when he says "common sense", "reasonable", or "a majority of americans support", expect the truth is the opposite.
...and knee pads.
About 850K barrels/day output. Declining. Terminal, but 850K is a solid output.
They consume all of it domestically. Every day.
Team America bitchez!!!
I wonder what the genius crew in the Egyptian military will do, when the "new elections" produce the same instability that the last election created?? or even better yet, another MB President!!! You'll keep voting until you elect what the military wants you to elect!
pretty fucked up that our government's idea of humanitarian aid is flooding in instruments of death.
Government is the attempt to organize society through institutionalized violence. So it's logical for politicians to see arms sales as a humanitarian mission. When they're feeling especially charitable they bomb people for their freedom.
Instruments of corporate welfare, that is. They don't think the Egyptians will actually try to use them. The Law of Unintended Consequences means the jets *will* get used, though.
Dudes, the F-16s are going to the People!
They're there to drop spiderman towels, it's hot and people will be sweaty
2 planes for each side..........................whoever wins will thank the u.s............................
do you need a drivers license or any special training to fly one?
Nah. Kick the tires, light the fires, shove the throttle to the firewall, and remember blue is the up side. Don't forget the "Arm Weapons" switch; nothing to it.
Also need to check your stall speed alarm occasionally.
Four F-16's....oh that'll surely solve everything!
Is that, like, the square root of 16 F-1's?...
Just root and wave the damned flag!
Rumor has it that, between bites of his gourmet dinner, Dona K's "hubby" has re-fitted them all with "Weirding Modules"...
Truly, there are some sounds (e.g. Biden's voice) that have the power to constrict my bowels...
They get heart plugs too?
All in all I'd rather have 16 F-4s thank you very much.
I'm just happy to be 4-F.
Biden has reportedly asked, "Why can't we just send one F-64?"
I know that's not an accurate statement because Biden isn't capable multiplying numbers of that size.
Laughed so hard I think I peed a little.
pods
They really are insane. Really, really, insane. God help us we're in the hands of lunatics.
Morsi reneged on his promisses to Obama, hence kaput
The better to shoot you with, my dears.
Idiots.
It is in America's "strategic interests" to continue sell arms to whoever will receive them and remit payments. That is all.
All hail the US industrial military complex, and its doctrine of endless war for a permanent peace.
Actually, nearly all military fighter jets, armored vehicles, hellfire missiles, and other military vehicles and ordinance that we "sell" to other nations are paid for by U.S. taxpayers, since nearly all of those same countries receiving these MIC wares receive many billions in U.S. foreign direct aid which are used to "pay" for these same "goods."
This is most definitely true of Egypt, as well as it's neighbor, Israel, which each receive billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars annually, and receive regular amazon.com delivery of military hardware.
Japan, Kuwait, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE are about the only nations I can think of at the moment that actually buy these items directly.
Another nice, backdoor (right up the ass), stealth subsidization of the MIC, compliments of the U.S. taxpayers under seige.
War, so its our fault.....figures. Time for a war on Washington, NSA evesdroppers be damned.
I always figured the accounting was on the low side when the say the 'Defence' budget is $1 trillion annually.
The U.S. and U.K. the have the largest private sector (in theory) military armaments' companies in the world, and are the largest exporters/sellers abroad of military equipment/weapons of any nations.
Coincidence?
Think economic & monetary theory....the red badge (shield) of courage (parasitism).
Red shield you say? Sprechen zie Deutsch?
EndTheFed: "nations I can think of at the moment that actually buy these items directly."
+ Canada + Australia
The English build their own stuff: Hurricanes, Thundershowers, SpringDrizzles, etc.
Ja wohl! Rothschild
Brother truth...I use the word "sell" loosely here...as in the new normal America, it doesn't really matter where the money comes from as long as the failed status quo in Washington and on Wall Street remain at their posts. That is all that matters, of course.
I presumed you knew, but just wanted to emphasize the incest for those who may just be starting to peel off their deer face.
Excellent summary, Truth. Historically, as you know, the U.S. aid to Egypt was meant to provide political cover for the massive aid America provides to Israel. Under the Mubarak regime, Egypt's government earned the U.S. aid by keeping other Arab countries from exercising aggressiveness against Israel. Mubarak was the U.S. puppet who "got along with" Israel.
This counterbalance, generously supplied by the U.S. taxpayer, placates the Muslim world and provides a story line to cover why an independent, wealthy, armed-to-the-teeth Israeli economy needs constant U.S. taxpayer support.
Of course, the published foreign aid to Israel does not include massive under cover assistance of all kinds.
Client states. The US "sells" them weapons at a loss, but gains SO much more.
It is exactly no different from dealing street drugs.
What payment! You're going to pay for them! The Gypos don't have any money. It's just an item they can bill to the taxpayer.
Seems that oil can be used in place of cash...no?
al-Qaeda will now have a military air force.
Great. Good job guys.
But they never learned how to land.
you still believe in towel headed lap dancing afficianados in piper cub flight simulators?
You still can't recognize a joke when you see one?
Well ~ Since you asked... The answer is: Every time I see a 'CrockettAlmanac' post, the first thing that comes to my mind is 'JOKE'...
Anything for a laugh, I always say.
Them four highly accurate tools of death should 'Free The Shit' out of whoever may be on the sharp ends of them.
Can you lot not overthrow Barry Sotero?? You know, stop the 'Pieces Prize' winner melting more folks with death machines.
Barry 'O', an intenational fucking disgrace.
Everybody in Egypt got Obamajet. We gonna keep him in president.
Didn't we murder Ghaddafi under the pretext that he was using such weapons on his own people (ie. to fight back against NATO sponsored mercs). Now we will arm the Egyptians so they can do the same thing and it's all good?
Our consistency is in that we do what we want, not that what we want can be described with any consistency.
Yes, of course. It is after all the "hobgoblin of little minds."
Libya had no central fractional fiat bank (just like Iraq, just like Iran, etc.), and this could not stand given their large deposits of oil, when we're living in a Petrodollar world.
There's no tinfoil used nor necessary when objectively viewing certain patterns in recent geopolitical "events."
It still amazes me that the "rebels" formed a central bank instantly. I wonder if it leasedout Gadaffi's gold as it's first official act?
Don't search for consistency. It'll wreak your head.
"Comin' again to save the motherfucking day, yeah!"
Just not the same without imagery and soundtrack
Which side are we bombing this time?
The ones on the ground?
.
The side that wasn't bombed last time.
Not that we should be sending anything, but WTF are they going to do with four F-16 jets? That's like when Bush pledged $15 million to the 2004 tsunami victims in the Philippines. It probably cost that much to get the money to them.
Relax ~ They're just the ones that Maverick & Goose flew into Iceman's jetwash, got fished out of the sea, & have been parked in the desert while the MIC keeps sending invoices for new ones...
I was thinking they're sending Colonel Chappy Sinclair in with his small gang of misfit kids!
Their last instructions were to "Win one for the ZIPPER"...
From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Armed_Forces):
The Egyptian Air Force or EAF is the aviation branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces. Currently, the backbone of the EAF is the F-16. The EAF (planes and pilot training) is considered to be the strongest in Africa and one of the strongest in the Middle East. The Mirage 2000 is the other modern interceptor used by the EAF. The Egyptian Air Force has 216 F-16s (plus 20 on order) making it the 4th largest operator of the F-16 in the World. It has about 579 combat aircraft and 149 armed helicopters having 35 Apache's AH-64D as it also continues to fly extensively upgraded MiG-21s, F-7 Skybolts, F-4 Phantoms, Dassault Mirage Vs, and the C-130 Hercules among other planes. The Air Force is undergoing massive modernization. Mikoyan confirmed that talks with Egypt are underway[when?] for the sale of 40 Mig-29SMT jet-fighters with a possible additional batch of 60-80 planes.
So, 4 f-16s... amongst 216 + 20 on order... definitely helping.
Or Pappy Boington.
they give two to each side. fairness and equality. equality is most easily and certainly achieved by making all participants worth nothing.
'Murica, Bitchez!
4, thats it? How long did it take to rid libya.....with the whole NATO force in front of us.
Must be an article from the onion.
Which Egypt gets the jets?
I hope McChrystol's boys don't know how to take remote control of them.
Amerikan taxpayers will absorb the cost thru LHM. Bullish
Must get the oil at all costs Bitcchezzz er I meant Democracy
They can be shot down by our allies, the Syrian rebels, with the sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles we gave al Qaeda.
And one of the stories about what Stevens was up to when he was killed is that he was trying to buy those Stingers back. Unfortunately the response was: you want a missle? I got your missle right here pal.
I'd be very surprised if the missiles we send our 'allies' fighting Assad don't have some GPS-enforced range limit in them.
Try to fire one outside Syria? e.g., in Israel? It blows up in your face.
Well now they HAVE to love us!
What the fuck for? They are probably going to be museum pieces without any upgrades, so unless they are expecting an imminent invasion from Napoleon through a timewarp, four f-16s are as useful as an umbrella during an artillery strike.
What kind of morons are running the Pentagon? "Give the Indians some beads and blankets. That will win them over". Yeah, this will go down reeeaaly well with the Egyptians. Expect a return package of f16 parts with a dollop of turd on top.
Chuck Hagel
WHO gets the jets? - That's easy! Mursi gets 2, and Army gets 2. Quatar gets the bill for all 4
No silly, if you are a gringo tax payer, YOU pay.
War in the middle east, what a great Obama diversion. Some risk though that it gets out of hand.
Perhaps Morsi got a bit too excited and his Syria rhetoric became a bit too hardline islamist. The west seems to like this image of ordinary, secular citizens overthrowing Assad and when Morsi started spewing out Jihad talk someone thought it would reflect poorly on the USA who happens to fund a large part of the Egyptian military. So they get a bit more secular people to take the reins and the guns keep on flowing. In the end it doesn't matter who the puppet is as long as he/she doesn't overstep boundaries.
US involved in another conflict.
Code Pink, Not In Our Name, Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, Dixie Chicks, Danny DeVito, etc., all marching in outrage to protest US imperialis-
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wait.
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NOTHING TO SEE HERE! MOVE ALONG! HOPE AND CHANGE!! MOVE ALONG!!
Dixie Chicks... Man, did they ever NOT get the memo about what happens to people who are publicly anti-war.
They're not stupid. Their livelihood depends on the graces of execs in H'wood and the MSM.
These execs have decided that "it's all good", cause O takes his orders from cousin Bibi.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
4 F-16's for the Al-Qaeda club,, cough rebels....These are John McCain’s boys USA USA USA kill all them brown people they hate our freedom HAHAHAHA.
The Spice Must Flow... /default
They'll just throw rocks at them.
Maintenance by Abdul the camel jockey and part time cab driver
(awarded under no bid special contract)
It seems the military completed a task previously agreed upon and now it's time to give some extra toys to the boys. 4 fighters is a gesture of goodwill. Thanks!
I am thoroughly convinced that the country is being run by a bunch of inbred retards.
Fucking hell Doc!!
So is mine!!
Bunch of fucking clown shoe wearing, inbreded fucking imbeciles. And that doesnt even mention, 3/3rds of them are cunts.
Outright wankers mate, and it reflects on us lot though. Even the Egyptians think eveyone in the western world has a face three foot long like Mr Kerry.
;-)
Which country are you talking about?
The U.S. specifically, but pretty much any western nation will fit the description.
racist
They'lll be used to protect oil on the Suez canal. Look at the price of WTI - If anything happen to global oil shipments and price spikes (during summer drive time) the fit will hit the shan our our fffffearless politcial leaders.
This is not 1967, Suez canals importance for oil transport is minimal, plenty available tankers around, different story for those mega box carriers, hurts trade big time.
And where is Anonymous when you need them? /s
Have they done anything useful, or just "show off" and pretend to be what they're not? Fluffers!
What a front for TPTB they are. I won't believe they're for real*, till they pull a Snowden.
* And hacking into the accounts of critics like me would simply proves that you're either immature or work for The Man.
Anonymous was a way to entrap some young enterprising hackers, I imagine, no more, no less.
Anonymous the NSA recruiting pool?
Dunno...but speaking of NSA recruiting gone all wrong, anyone see this?
http://mobandmultitude.com/2013/07/02/the-nsa-comes-recruiting/
Encouraging youngsters
Just out of curiousity, what will these F-16s be used for? Crowd control? Bombing high food prices to drvie them lower?
They're our jets, so they'll be spreading freedom, one little brown corpse at a time.
Spend! Spend! Spend!
Bust the government, blame the capitalists, junk the constitution, install a dictatorship.
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/gallery/p2p-46608615/
A good way to test drone vs jet.
Sell the Egyptians the F16s and then shoot them down.
Business as usual.
1 word, Obamacare :)
to whose side are we sending too? it doesn't even say lol
"I know all Americans are suffering in this lack of economy, and many say the money for these aircraft which I am spending extra to get to Egypt asap could be spent better here at home for Americans. As pResident, I agree."
"The Egyptian military has assured me they are concerned about the plight of our economy."
It is against the law to send Egypt any military aid: