Obama Regime ready to sell 125 M1A1 tanks to Egypt as well as other weapons, equipment, parts, training, and logistical support
President Hussein doing everything he can to advance the cause of democracy throughout the Middle East.
(Contentions) — While everyone in Washington was concentrating on the debt crisis this week, the Obama administration attempted to slip through a questionable arms deal that requires serious scrutiny. Though it got little attention, the Defense Department officially notified Congress on Friday that it was authorizing the sale of 125 M1A1 tanks to Egypt as well as other weapons, equipment, parts, training and logistical support. While most of the military sales to Egypt have sailed through without objection in the more than 30 years since it signed a peace deal with Israel, this is the first such sale since the fall of the Mubarak regime earlier this year. Which is exactly why the sale ought to be held up until the unsettled situation in the most populous country in the Arab world is better understood.
Congress has 30 days to register its formal objections to the proposed sale. That it should do so is imperative. The reasons for a delay are not complicated.
In the wake of Mubarak’s fall from power, the Egyptian military seems to have retained a firm grip on power. But the army seems intent on sharing power with a resurgent Muslim Brotherhood movement that threatens the foundation of the relationship between the United States and Egypt. Since the 1979 Camp David Accords, the Egyptian military has gotten all the high-tech and expensive equipment it wanted so long as it was clear their new toys would not be used to threaten or attack Israel. But as Egypt lurches toward the election of a new government that will probably be made up of Islamist elements, that peace is in jeopardy.
This means this is not the moment to be strengthening the offensive capabilities of an Egypt that has opened its border with Hamas-run Gaza and is distancing itself from an already cold peace with the Jewish state. Egypt may not yet be ready to repudiate the peace treaty or engage in military adventures, but it must be reminded there is a price for the open-ended U.S. support it has received for decades. While the despotic Mubarak could be trusted to keep the peace in exchange for $2 billion a year in American baksheesh, there is no way of knowing whether the new masters of Cairo will be so reliable.
The United States should be encouraging the new Egyptian government to build democracy and invest in its economy so as to help its impoverished people and create a society based on the rule of law. But handing over advanced tanks to the Egyptian military is not the path to either democracy or prosperity for that country. Congress must act to halt this sale immediately.
Posted by WM on Sunday, July 10, 2011, at 2:23 pm | 
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Sell, or give?
If Egypt has the money to buy new tanks, why are we sending them 3 billion dollars a year?
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Damn, Obama, why don’t you just declare war on Israel, ya moron? By the way, those are very good tanks, but you have to have someone competent to operate them. That’s not you Haji.
These tanks will be used to attack Israel , WATCH .
Please impeach him and get him out of there before this happens. This is giving aid to our enemies, the MB and their friends.
Project Gun Walker: Egypt Edition
Impeachment and trial is very nice thinking. However, the Weeper of the House does not have the balls to start this. After all, he now has a new golf buddy.
Fuck the Egyptians…
let them use the old M-60 battle tanks we gave them years ago
Isn’t it funny that they are talking about Gun Control in the US, but Obama is willing to give formidable weapons to the Muslim Brotherhood?
Socialists all over the world are coordinating their actions for a common purpose. Barack Obama has a large role in the process, but it isn’t the only role.
In much the same way that the Islamists want to build a multinational caliphate out of the entire Middle East, socialists would like to expand the European Union into something bigger……something potentially trans-Atlantic. Obama’s job is to make the pieces fit together better. The American economy and independence has to be pushed down in order to make it compatible with all the economies of of the other socialist shit-holes in the world.
They call themselves ‘International Socialists’ for a reason.
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Melt those Congressional phones people!!!! we cannot allow this man to do this!!!
Why not just give the taliban tanks also. That is pretty much what is being done here
This isn’t the first time we’ve sold M1A1′s to Egypt. They’ve got about a 1,000 of them. The good news is that the one’s we’ve sold to them don’t have the advanced fire control system, reactive armor, and the depleted uranium armored front end. In other words, Israel could still kick their asses.
+1 on what gastorgrab said.
In a related story:
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Pakistan urges U.S. to share intelligence on Zawahri
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE76912G20110710
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani called on the United States on Sunday to share information about new al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri after U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said he believed that Osama bin Laden’s successor was in Pakistan.
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If the Pakistanis are getting worried, then our guys must be getting close. We should start feeding them false information so they cant warn him.
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Hells yeah, sold! Whatta ya mean, ‘what if’??
@ Jimco
lol no kidding. 125 Abrams tanks? Not to mention all the other goodies we are giving them. I wonder what they’ll use this stuff for? I’m sure totally peaceful means. /sarcasm off
Gastor: Love’em ‘asking’ us to share info, ’cause they wanna get him sooo bad. Whining!
Why would you sell weapons to the enemy unless you hade them pre-booby trapped? I already know the answer, the communist moslim USURPER must help his islamo moslim brethern.
Its no different than anything else. It doesn’t matter what the law says. It doesn’t matter what the Constitution says. This bunch is going to do as they damn please. They have the power and feel they are above the law. I think their attitude is , Slam it in there and make them fight to take it back out while we delay them for years. It’s working quite well for them so far, isn’t it?
@gastorgrab
Good point.
It’s like giving someone the money to buy your car, and then feeling good over the price you got for it. Sounds like a Timaaaaa Geitner scheme.
Hey binUbama while yer at it, why don’t you just arm the mooslime world with Nukes too?
I mean hell they’re yer people, right? You are a mooslime, right? 
You’re e no good sonofabitch too, right? 
This sonofabitch is going to make sure the christian and jewish world is destroyed.
I curse those who voted for this POS!
These tanks will be Israel bound most likely sooner that later. I need to start blasting off letters to stop this.
This is not only warped, it is sick and dangerous.
he is arming his people.
“Tanks a lot!” says the Muslim Brotherhood.
If a person was really civic minded, and he wanted to help keep guns out of the hands of bad people, why the hell would he vote for Obama?
Egypt, huh Pharoah? You hamites didn’t learn your lesson the first time when you drowned in the Red Sea so God is going to do it again since the Bible is a circle. Remember it was Pharoah and the Hamites who enslaved the Jews while the Jews where crying for “civil rights” and religious liberties so dont get your panties in a wad reading the morning news mafia.
And, of course they are getting ready to attack Israel. They hate God and that is God’s chosen people but more importantly that is GOD’S LAND which they covet. He told Moses to take those sandals off of his feet for it was HOLY ground he was standing on. Furthermore, God is bringing the world together to go after Israel so He can wipe every person off the face of the earth that hates Him.
Zeph 3:8: Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations (That’s the United Nations and the defunct League of Nations) , that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
And, guess who God is going to use as kindling? The faggots, since Jesus that the faggots would be settign up the Days of Lot right before His return. Know what a faggot is? Its a bundle of sticks….used for burning. The God of the Bible will save you or destroy you. 100% your choice. Just like the sun…
gastorgrab says:
July 10, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Project Gun Walker: Egypt Edition
I lol’d
I agree, R.H. Once they know how to use them, Israel here they come. Treasonous C-in-C.
Of course, that verse is the last and final warning in the OT that God is going to take every Gentile State of the UN “and bind them in bundles to burn” (Matt 13:30). In His gracious goodness and mercy, He informs them of this “coming attraction” over 2,600 years before they meet in downtown New York and just like the depraved sinners in Noah’s day, they will reject the warning.
On that note, the only thing men learn from history is men never learn anything history. EVEN SO, COME LORD JESUS!
Incredible stupidity. Congress needs to put the brakes on this bonehead move. The muslim brotherhood will hold the pink slips on these tanks in a couple of years.
Why are arming our so called ally. we have given the billions in the past. Will these weapons be given to the Taliban. Overall a bad idea.
Logic says those tanks will be used against Israel in the near future; it also tells us which side American forces will be supporting in Israel. Can you imagine the uproar – even by the libtards – if tanks we sold Egypt were used to kill U.S. forces?
bs knows we’ll be helping the muslim brotherhood & co.
I’m thinking the best and brightest minds in Israel just went to work on the next generation of anti-tank weapons. Expect a renaissance in cheep, portable, easily manufactured, anti-tank guns in a month or two.
It would be ok if they got hold of the new French tank, 12cyl. turbo diesel, 10 speed……..9 are reverse ! Only reason it has a foreward gear is in case they get attacked from the rear!
GM installed “Onstar” in each of them so if they’re going in the wrong direction we can shut them off from over here.
President Hussein Obama is arming the Egyptians so they can help Palestine/Iran destroy Israel. So while we’re helping to defend Israel, we are attacked by the very tanks we sold to Egypt. This fucking president is our number one enemy….period! He hates America as much as he hates Israel.
Awww c’mon. Be nice.
He’s just trying to bring in some revenue
Project Tank Walker
So typical of this administration, heighten awareness of a problem, set a false deadline, offer nothing, pressure Republicans to pass something so “we will know what’s in it” all the while sneaking through other pieces of legislation/policies/lawsuits while the public is fixated on one problem.
Congress should halt ALL ties with the Moslem Brotherhood. No aid (military or otherwise) should go to any nation whose over-riding goals include our destruction. But then, our House Weeper is still trying to find some solution that will satisfy Obama and that can somehow be sold to the conservatives as a “victory.” And the Weeper Speaker apparently cannot walk, chew gum and sob at the same time. Boehner must go if there are some IMMEDIATE successes emanating from his actions.
Here’s your US tax money at work, building Mosques for the Muzzys in Egypt.
750 million$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6gaPUM6_34&feature=player_embedded
“the Defense Department officially notified Congress on Friday that it was authorizing the sale of 125 M1A1 tanks to Egypt ”
absolutely a bad idea…I hope the US is giving some sophisticated anti-tank guns to Israel
The mexcrement narco cartels weren’t interested in this equipment?
I can’t even wrap my head around this for it to explode. Unfucking believable.
Tanks Alot President Idiot Boob Nincompoop. While you’re at it, let’s sell some nukes to our good buddies in Somalia and don’t forget our best friends the Taliban.
Because that’s what our strongest ALLY needs! MORE TANKS!
….what? they are not our ally? What the F*ck is he doing by selling our tanks?
They’re not HIS tanks to sell, they’re OUR tanks.
Boogles the mind
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Obama = Warmonger!
Tanks need to surround the White House and put an end to this insanity…
The Muslim Brotherhood says “Thanks for the tanks, 52%!”
Project Tank Walker
dri wins the thread.
Sale? They’re buying the tanks with money we gave them. So, in effect, the tanks are free for them. We make nothing on this deal all the way around. We’re funding our own demise. Again.
Look for the union label.
And we sold thousands of tons of scrap metal to japan just prior to PEARL HARBOR
Sure, what could go wrong? /s
Obummer has ONE REASON……..the destruction of ISRAEL………………..BUT he is wrong. What will result is the Middle-east nuclear war………….Democrats say they are pro-choice but they are leaving Israel with only one option 1. destroy the Muslims or option 2. die………like i said there is only one choice. Do these idiots really believe that Israel will go down without a fight??????
I wonder if they would offer as many tanks to Israel so it can defend itself.
Any bets?
What the hell are these people thinking? Are they that stupid? Who the hell thought THIS was a good idea?
I am so confused…Egypt has had it’s own M1 Tank manufacturing plant for about twenty years now. It is co-owned by the U.S and them…and operated by General Dynamics. They have been building their owm M1 version for years (the south Koreans have a similar plant working). So this article confuses me…about all we could be doing is renewing the operational contract with GD, and supplying them money for extended production.
I forgot to mention that the Merkava Mk IV is so superior to the M1 configuration we allow the Egyptians to produce…that a contest in the desert would turn out similar to the six day war…except it would probably end in three…and Sabra’s would track into Cairo this go ’round…
Tanks are useless in desert warfare if you do not control the air. Remember the highway of death?
I suspect not only will are we selling them tanks, we’ll pay for them first!
Why do they need more tanks? Defense maybe?
Sure they need those Tanks. Germany is in discussions with Israel to sell them the same number of Leopard tanks. it is about time we find out which is the better and I suspect it will be sooner rather than later.
The tanks are great tanks, but what makes them the most deadly in the world as of now is the training and the crews! The muzzies are nowhere near as proficient as our Army and Marines at tank warfare. Israel would wipe them up in tank v tank battle i’m betting.
We really don’t need to sell anything to an unstable government do we?? I mean Obammy has no common sense, but come on!
One tank will go to China, one tank to Russia to be dissected and replicated. Then the rest to all boarders surrounding Israel.
Nearly every single presiding Politician in Washington, who condones this treasonable act of aiding and abetting The Muslim Brotherhood, an enemy of the United States, in Egypt should be impeached.
This is “Operation GunWalker”, morphed. Let’s call it “Operation TankWalker”