Looks Like The WLB May Have Prematurely Ejaculated in Saudi Arabia

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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/6...=emaildkre

Looks like $110B Saudi arms deal is bullshit

(That's their headline - not mine.)

I’ve spoken to contacts in the defense business and on the Hill, and all of them say the same thing: There is no $110 billion deal. Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts. Many are offers that the defense industry thinks the Saudis will be interested in someday. So far nothing has been notified to the Senate for review. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the arms sales wing of the Pentagon, calls them “intended sales.” None of the deals identified so far are new, all began in the Obama administration.

The Brookings piece goes on to note that some of the weapons 'sold' don't even exist yet. Nor do they necessarily add up, even if they were to happen at some undetermined future date, to $110 billion:

"Truth" is a foreign concept to the WLB.