Posted on 02/09/2011 5:19:27 PM PST by Third Person
Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt. In a testy personal telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told President Obama not to humiliate Mr Mubarak and warned that he would step in to bankroll Egypt if the US withdrew its aid programme, worth $1.5 billion annually. America’s closest ally in the Gulf made clear that the Egyptian President must be allowed to stay on to oversee the transition towards peaceful democracy and then leave with dignity. “Mubarak and King Abdullah are not just allies, they are close friends, and the King is not about to see his friend cast aside and humiliated,” a senior source in the Saudi capital told The Times.
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And right about then Obama shut his big fat dumb mouth.
Realize that the Saudi King can scratch a check for 1.5 billion out of just one of his many ‘checking accounts’ and never notice the rounding error.
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It’s bad when the King of SA knows more about American interests than the occupant in the Oval Office.
The Saudis are evil pieces of sh*t but they’re smarter than our Dear Leader, who has his head so far up his butt he’ll never get it out.
They forwarded the message from Putin.
He won’t pay attention to the wishes of the American people he’s meant to represent; he won’t pay attention to precedent, to well-established American foreign policy; but he’ll listen to, and bow to, a foreign king? If the Saudis indeed financed his Harvard education, they really purchased more than they ever imagined, seems to me.
How embarrassing. The Saudi government has a better grip on reality than our White House and State Department.
The State Run Media is espousing the "consistent responses" line and we're supposed to believe them??????
I am glad Obama will not listen to the Saudis, it means Obama is a "short timer."
You’re a pantomime president and you’ve got Soros on the teleprompter and King Abdullah on the telephone. What to do. What to do.
Valerie!!
I'll say!
He wrote the check for the first Gulf War.
And so Obama bowed down to the King of SA once again.
That's what happens when you have an administration run by children.
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Nobody tells Obama what to do!
Obammy the boy puppet
Google is running a revolution in Egypt.
Obowma does what he is told by his Saudi masters.
What a mess.
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