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Mistrust overshadows Obama's Saudi trip
Yahoo News ^
| 3/28/14
| Assad ABBOUD
Posted on 03/28/2014 9:38:15 AM PDT by Cheerio
Riyadh (AFP) - US President Barack Obama meets Saudi King Abdullah Friday as mistrust fuelled by differences over Iran and Syria overshadows a decades-long alliance between their countries.
Obama, who is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia late in the afternoon on a flight from Italy, is expected to hold evening talks with the monarch on a royal estate outside Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia has strong reservations about efforts by Washington and other major world powers to negotiate a deal with Iran on its nuclear programme.
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TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: anwr; canada; keystonexl; obama; obamatrip; opec; saudiarabia
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It is also disappointed over Obama's 11th-hour decision last year not to take military action against the Syrian regime over chemical weapons attacks.
Saudi analyst Abdel Aziz al-Sagr, who heads the Gulf Research Centre, said Saudi-US relations are "tense due to Washington's stances" on the Middle East, especially Iran.
That is an understatement of a RAT politician that ran on the platform of returning the US to a position of Global respect after slamming his predecessor for saddling America with 8 years of "Failed Foreign" policy.
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posted on
03/28/2014 9:38:15 AM PDT
by
Cheerio
To: Cheerio
we’ve had relations with them since 1933.
To: Cheerio
He will bow and scrape. This “obama” thing is a disgrace.
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posted on
03/28/2014 9:42:03 AM PDT
by
Ray76
(Profit from the mistakes of others, you'll never live long enough to make them all yourself.)
To: Cheerio
Obama can fix this by bowing far lower to his Saudi masters, keeping the price of Saudi oil high, denying American oil and gas to Americans, continuing to fund and arm Al Qaeda, and renting out the US military as directed by the Saudis.
John McCain says so.
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posted on
03/28/2014 9:48:23 AM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Ray76
This ‘drop’ on Syria episode really irked the Saudis...from what I’ve read. They can’t understand the whole logic in DC, the characters running things, or the end-result? Oddly, the Turks are talking about some mini-war going on with Syria, and I suspect that the Saudis are all happy over that and pumped up about the Turkish leadership.
To: Cheerio
Has the media finally given up the fantasy that we had all kinds of foreign relations problems 6 or 7 years ago because the world hated that stupid cowboy Bush and that Obama’s sophisticated diplomacy would make the world love us again?
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posted on
03/28/2014 9:51:33 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Cheerio
Muslims not trusting Muslims! Who’d woulda thought?
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posted on
03/28/2014 9:51:34 AM PDT
by
stboz
To: stboz
soebarkah needs his mechanism adjusted.
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posted on
03/28/2014 9:53:57 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: stboz
They still behead those that turn on them don’t they?
I am rooting for the Barbarians....
To: Cheerio
Who you going to believe Obama or the Pope Saudis. [/sarc]
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posted on
03/28/2014 9:58:02 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(prop·a·gan·da - information of a biased or misleading nature)
To: Sacajaweau
weve had relations with them since 1933. Maybe Jean Querrie can give them a RESET button, eh?
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posted on
03/28/2014 9:58:17 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Cheerio
The “Bootlicking” tour continues.
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posted on
03/28/2014 10:01:30 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Ray76
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain
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posted on
03/28/2014 10:03:52 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
To: Cheerio
Obama, who is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia late in the afternoon on a flight from Italy, is expected to hold evening talks with the monarch on a royal estate outside Riyadh. Saudi Arabia has strong reservations about efforts by Washington and other major world powers to negotiate a deal with Iran on its nuclear program.
"Wrong Way Goldfarb" is on the road again. Cuidado!
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posted on
03/28/2014 10:05:20 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Cheerio
The only countries where Michelle has not accompanied Obama are those using Sharia Law. If you ask a Muslim whether Obama is a Muslim they’ll say yes. Why? Because a Muslim can not bring a non-Muslim wife to a Sharia ruled country.
To: Cheerio
It’s a little late but Obama is seeking a king lesson.
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posted on
03/28/2014 10:12:32 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Obama is the “Dip” in Diplomacy.
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posted on
03/28/2014 10:16:48 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: pepsionice
The Saudis are PO’d at 0bama and his monkey-boy Kerry bungling the whole Syria deal. The Saudis have been working for years to dump Assad so they can build their pipelines to Europe. 0bama and Kerry came off looking like total fools in the international community.
It’s no wonder the Saudis are trying to cut a deal with the Russians on middle east policy. They aren’t stupid, and they won’t tie themselves to losers like us.
This trip will be another international embarassment for 0bama. We will be even weaker when he returns home.
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posted on
03/28/2014 10:21:47 AM PDT
by
henkster
(I don't like bossy women telling me what words I can't use.)
To: Cheerio
Will Barry make the King a present of a wooden box full of bull-skat seeds from Michelle’s garden?
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posted on
03/28/2014 10:33:36 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
To: Cheerio
Barry should’ve taken Jimmah with him on the Saudi trip.
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