Posted on 04/17/2016 6:46:44 PM PDT by EagleUSA
WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of US Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of American assets held by the kingdom if lawmakers pass a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The Obama administration has lobbied Congress to block the bill's passage, according to administration officials and congressional aides from both parties, and the Saudi threats have been the subject of inten se discussions in recent weeks between lawmakers and officials from the state department and the Pentagon. The officials have warned senators of diplomatic and economic fallout from the legislation. .
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“..We need to bow some more...”
Yes, and open some more flying schools that just teach you how to take off...landing is not necessary.....
pass the bill
If Saudi Arabia had any part in 9/11 they should be exposed. If true pull everything American out of their Country and cut all ties. Killing 3000 just for fun makes them the rottenest garbage pile of killers in the world.
Pass the bill and let the rocks hit their heads.
Let them pound sand.
I would have let Saddam have it back in 1991, instead of wasting our treasure on saving Kuwait.
My idea eggsacatly!
We owe the Fraudis a debt since 9/11. We should pay it to their so called holy cities. They should be paid with an air delivery of Plutonium, “the gift that keeps on giving”..
that is a good thing, now we need a list of companies they own in the USA to boycott. we can help them leave. I know of a company they own in Arizona. they dont pay any benefits. no pay for any holiday, none, no retirement plans, none
They have no concept of business and how manage people. It is what you get when you sell a business to dictators that do not have to manage slaves.
The royal family would make good feedstock for a biodiesel plant.
I kinda agree with you. From the 750 billion dollars....the first wave of 20-odd billion might go for full value. The second wave would go for 20-percent off full value, and about mid-way to the 750 billion...it’d be a 50-percent sale, if you ask me. By the end....people would simply pay 33-cents to the dollar for these bonds. Saudi Arabia would get half the true value, and be standing there shaking their head over how they lost so much of their cash. Then....who would buy their oil if you realize you were financing Terrorism Incorporated?
The global bullies - our “free trade” partners - have grown accustomed to ordering us around with economic threats. These are orders for our leaders to act in ways that are not in the interest of the US or our people. Globalism sucks.
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