Don the Con says weapon sales are way more important than human lives

[malaise]

But remember the administration's response was the same when it came to the dead children in Yemen.

They think the same re dead people in the US versus the NRA's gun sales.

Of course he's lying about the value of the weapons sales with the Saudi Royal authoritarians.

[BeckyDem]

1. Trump made himself perfectly clear yesterday, yep.

[malaise]

3. One of his administration's goons said pretty much the same thing

when the deaths of the children in Yemen were questioned

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/us-supplied-bomb-that-killed-40-children-school-bus-yemen

The Obama administration offered Saudi Arabia more than $115bn in weapons in the course of its two four-year terms, more than any previous US administration, according to a report in 2016.

After the bombing of a funeral hall in October 2016 that killed 155 people, Barack Obama halted the sale of guided munition technology to Saudi Arabia, on the grounds that improved precision would not save civilian lives if the Saudi-led coalition were not taking care to avoid hitting non-military targets. The sales were reinstated by the Trump administration’s first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, in March 2017.

Saudi and US officials have insisted that efforts are constantly being made to limit civilian casualties in the campaign against Houthi rebels, but United Nations figures show the civilian death toll rising, with April this year becoming the bloodiest month of the war so far.

[BeckyDem]

5. +1

[spanone]

2. he also personally makes a lot of cash from the saudis....it's all about money with this creep

[malaise]

4. He and his son in law

[BeckyDem]

6. Bingo

[BeckyDem]

7. I think its important in condemning Trump to note he is making the case

for never ending war using his rationalizations for the Saudis. We are in Afghanistan for what? Trump was allegedly the guy who was going to be the non-interventionist. Yea, right.

[malaise]

8. War is a racket-and the military industrial complex must be fed

Which is why as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed, the Muslims became the new MIC enemy.

Additionally it doesn't matter who is killed in the US because the NRA has weapons to sell.
Profit matters more than people

[BeckyDem]

9. Unfortunately, all true.