Posted on 01/29/2019 6:30:23 PM PST by Kaslin
Former US president Barack Obama lied to Saudi Arabia when violating the redlines he famously declared regarding Syria’s use of chemical weapons and then not acting when they were used, a former senior Saudi official said in an interview with Independent Arabia.
Bandar bin Sultan served for years as head of Saudi intelligence as well as the Saudi ambassador to the United States. In the interview, he recalled a last phone call between the late Saudi King Abdullah and Obama, during which the Saudi leader told the US president: “I did not expect that [after] this long life, I would see [the day] when an American president lies to me.”
Obama, bin Sultan said, “would promise something and do the opposite.” He said that the president took the Middle East back 20 years and also spoke critically of the Iran nuclear deal and how the former president spoke publicly about curbing Iran’s activities, but then went behind Saudi Arabia’s back and negotiated the nuclear deal.
These policies by Obama, he said, emboldened Russia and Iran and paved the way for them to enter Syria and interfere in the civil war that has raged there since 2011.
Syrian President Bashar Assad, he said, was a “kid” and that while his late father Hafez was capable of making decisions, Bashar could not.
Regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, bin Sultan said that the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat committed a “crime” against his people by rejecting the peace plan proposed by former president Bill Clinton.
The former ambassador said that he met with the feared leader of Iran’s al Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, during a visit he made to Tehran. “A coincidence led me to getting to (see) Soleimani face to face," bin Sultan said. "Until then, we had [only] heard of him without seeing him."
Thank you for posting. In a sane journalistic world, this would be a major story for a while.
The Middle East was turned into a maelstrom by Obama - the biggest refugee crisis since WWII, and the Major City of Mosul largely destroyed - mountains of bodies.
For which they gave him a Nobel Prize.
Obama should get another Nobel Prize for lying to those radical Islamic mutants.
Wall to wall crickets.
So he set it back from the 1300s to the 1280s?
The Saudis set Middle East back 20 years
Everything he says about Obama is true.
But I wouldn’t take an Islamic Saudi’s word for it.
2nd one I’ve seen today on this. But, he set the US back twice that so what are they whining about?
Here is who is covering this, per Google News:
Fox News
Jerusalem Post
Al-Arabiya
Sputnik International
Sara Carter’s blog
Al Masdar News
Gunes
SINDOnews.com
Vietnamnet.vn
Tinmoi.vn
Soha
One of the voters for the Nobel Prize already wishes they had not given one to Obama. ‘Leading from behind’ was a cowardly copout, as was telling us that ISIS was a jayvee bunch, justifying his refusal to act against any muslim.
Barack Obama lied and 100’s of thousands died
HaHaHaHaHaHaHa....If you like your Middle East, you can keep your Middle East. Obozo was a wolf commie in sheeps clothing, a liar non pareil.
Promise something and do the opposite? Like health care? The man is an enemy of America. He’s only loyal to the mullahs.
Obama was the perfect recipient of the Noble War Prize. Libya. Syria. Yemen. Egypt. ISIS.
A trillion dollars later ...
“Well, I guess those jobs weren’t shovel-ready after all.”
Sadly, trillion is the new billion.
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