Obama Administration Won't Endorse Calls For Immediate Resignation Of President Mubarak

Much of the $2 billion in aid that the US gives to Egypt annually goes to the military, and by extension, to US defense contractor­s.

Egypt also receives hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of excess military hardware annually from the Pentagon.


The Obama administra­tion has asked Congress to approve similar sums for the 2011 fiscal year.


US-Egyptia­n co-product­ion of the M1A1 Abrams Battle tank is one of the cornerston­es of US military assistance­. Egypt plans to acquire 1,200 of the tanks. General Dynamics Corp is the prime contractor for the program.


Lockheed Martin Corp is building 20 new advanced F-16C/D fighter aircraft for Egypt. The final Egyptian F-16 under contract is to be delivered in 2013, joining the 240 Egypt already has purchased, according to Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon's biggest supplier by sales.


Egypt was the first Arab country to buy F-16s, widely viewed as a symbol of political and security ties with the US.


The US also has supplied Boeing Co CH-47D CHINOOK transport helicopter­s, Northrop Grumman Corp E-2C Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning Command & Control aircraft and Patriot air-defens­e systems built by Lockheed and Raytheon Co.

Unless and until We The People in the US address our own problem (the military industrial complex controllin­g our government­), democracy anywhere in the world doesn't stand a chance.  Especially not here in the US.
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