Posted on 09/04/2015 4:40:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Washington (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Friday welcomed Saudi Arabia's King Salman for a long-delayed first White House summit marked by warm public words, amid clashing views on Middle Eastern crises.
Obama made the rare move of greeting the 79-year-old monarch at the doors of the White House, as he hailed the "longstanding friendship" between the two countries.
Salman's inaugural visit as king -- originally scheduled for May and canceled by Riyadh -- had been billed as a way of putting relations back on a more stable footing.
In the Oval Office, Obama was effusive, saying he wanted to "once again reaffirm not only our personal friendship, but the deep and abiding friendship between our two people."
For his part Salman said his visit was a "symbol of the deep and strong relationship that we have with the United States."
These meetings normally end in "some kind of public statement that puts as positive a spin as possible on the meeting," said Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"Both nations are close strategic partners in spite of their differences, and both states need each other."
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The Saudis hate and fear the Iranians, especially the Royal family. Nothing is going to change that.
This thread is useless without pictures of Obama bowing to him
Did he make him leave by the back door past the garbage bags?
The only thing that would make the Saudis go along the the nukes for Iran deal is that Obummer promised them that there would not be an alternate to dumBO in the White Hut in 18 months.
Did Obunghole bow deeply before his Muslim master?
FR doesn't allow us to post gay fluffing porn pictures...
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