Posted on 01/27/2015 12:24:48 AM PST by barmag25
Barack Obama is travelling with a 27-strong delegation to cement ties with the new king of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as concerns over Yemen and the Islamic State take centre stage in the increasingly volatile region.
Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan, Republican hawk senator John McCain and General Lloyd Austin, head of US Central Command forces in the region, are among the surprise additions to a hastily organised trip that has drawn critical comparisons with the US failure to send any senior figures to Paris following recent terrorist attacks.
Secretary of state John Kerry and leading House Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Joe Crowley, who have both been travelling with Obama in Delhi, will also accompany him on the unscheduled stop off at the kings palace in Riyadh.
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I guess one has to pay homage to the new master.
I guess James taylor is already booked for something else, I didnt see his name listed...
"Republican hawk senator John McCain "
OK. Put down the hash pipe.
more bowing down to IslamoNazi dictators?
more money for terrrorist training camps?
more prayers (to Allah-Satan) at the black rock?
or just make sure he’s still considered “useful” by his new master(s) in Saudi?
(creeps!)
(peuk!)
Besides Obama, Kerry and Rhodes, the delegation with include: Joseph W. Westphal, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia; Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Mark R. Warner (D-Va.); Reps. Nancy Pelosi, (D-Calif), Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), Ami Bera (D-Calif.) and Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.); Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to the president; national security adviser Susan Rice; CIA Director John Brennan; John Podesta, counselor to the president; Jennifer Palmieri, White House director of communications; Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism; former secretaries of state James Baker and Condoleezza Rice; former national security advisers Brent Scowcroft, Sandy Berger and Stephen Hadley; Frances Fragos Townsend, former assistant to the president for counterterrorism and homeland security; Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of U.S. Central Command; Brian Deese, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget; White House press secretary Josh Earnest; Anita Breckenridge, deputy chief of staff for operations; Tina Tchen, chief of staff to the first lady; Chase Cushman, director of scheduling; Peter A. Selfridge, chief of protocol; and Melissa Winter, deputy chief of staff to the first lady.
Sens. John McCain (RepublicanHawk-Ariz.)
Fixed it
Absolutely sickening! What a total and complete embarassment to America and American values he is. ( Barf!! Picture goes here...)
Will he chew gum, blow bubbles, spit it out in public?
John Brennan is rumored to be a Muslim, isn’t he?
*sigh*
I quite liked the story of when the recently departed King Abdullah was visiting Britain, and was taken on a tour of the one of the Queen’s estates by Her Majesty herself driving at full pelt around windey lanes.
Apparently he urged the Queen to “slow down” but she didn’t listen.
Elizabeth II was one woman whom King Abdullah could not forbid to drive.
Obama bows low to the Saudi monarchy while does all he can to disrespect the UK. Clearly he prefers absolute monarchies over constitutional ones. Democracy can be such a bind.
Of course McCain would go.
General Lloyd Austin,
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a descendant of Stephen Austin the Texican ???
Oh how the blood has thinned out...
Yes he is a convert and stands in line with Reggie Love.
Are all these “important” people flying on just one plane?
wtf
Interesting that ValJar Obamas pet Medusa is going also
I refuse to listen to Cat Stevens on the radio.
I used to love his music
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