Senator Joe Biden speaks during debate over a vote to override Presidential veto of arms sales to Saudi Arabia in 1986:
“…If we look at the Middle East, I think it’s about time we stop, those of us who support, as most of us do, Israel in this body, for apologizing for our support for Israel. There’s no apology to be made. None!
It is the best $3 billion investment we make. Whether or not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region. The United States would have to go out and invent an Israel.
I am with my colleagues on the floor of the Foreign Relations Committee and we worry at length about NATO. And we worry about the eastern flank of NATO, Greece and Turkey, and how important it is. They pale by comparison … in terms of the benefit that accrues to the United States of America. Ladies and gentlemen, my colleagues in the Senate, I suggest to you that if Saudi Arabia’s interests lays in as much in the existence of an Israel as it does in the existence of any other single country, for Israel could not afford, nor could we, for Saudi Arabia to be toppled. Nor could that occur in a way that would be able to be prevented as a consequence of selling sophisticated weapons. So let’s shed the myth. Saudis are not bad guys. They are fine people, but do not need these weapons. It will hurt them, hurt us, it’s against US interest. I thank my colleagues for the six minutes. It’s a welcomed time.”
Ohh we know Joe. We know 😉
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