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Breaking: Saudi Arabia Starts Bombing Yemen: U.S. Officials
NBC News via Twitter ^ | Wednesday, March 25, 2015 | Richard Engel

Posted on 03/25/2015 4:12:08 PM PDT by kristinn

US officials confirm to @NBCNews that Saudi Arabia has started bombing rebel positions inside #Yemen. NO indication of troops crossing in.


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To: seeker41

this idiot in the white house has allowed chaos and for those liberals and liberal-tarians who keep saying we should reduce our military and leave the world to their own then they need to wake the hell up and get off their drug.


21 posted on 03/25/2015 4:26:54 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: seeker41

Makes you wonder why Obama picks a fight with Israel while all this is going down.

(Yes, rhetorical question, we all know Obama wants the Middle East in flames and to destroy old alliances).


22 posted on 03/25/2015 4:27:32 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: kristinn

I’m sure the Saudi’s will afford ISIS and Al Qaeda the same rights Obama gives terrorists. /sarcasm

Saudis are going to slaughter them on sight.


23 posted on 03/25/2015 4:28:08 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: kristinn

And all this time I thought Yemen was our ally in the war on terror. Shouldn’t Obama put Saudi Arabia on the list of terrorist states for bombing our dear ally? /s


24 posted on 03/25/2015 4:28:19 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: American Constitutionalist

Saudis might even drive the price lower in order to starve their enemies.


25 posted on 03/25/2015 4:29:19 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: kristinn
Gotta get the price of crude up somehow.

5.56mm

26 posted on 03/25/2015 4:29:36 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: kristinn

I think nearly the entire Mid east will soon be involved in a war.


27 posted on 03/25/2015 4:30:09 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

Overheard outside of Valerie Jarrett’s office upon hearing of the Saudis entering the fray:’excellent!’


28 posted on 03/25/2015 4:30:54 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: RandallFlagg; xkaydet65

As much as I want to see the price of crude recover for the US industry, the opposite may happen in that the Saudis may increase production to pay for military action. Of course if a few Iranian/Isis backed terrorists blow up Saudi petro installations, it would indeed cause a price rise.


29 posted on 03/25/2015 4:34:26 PM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016 - If you have a 22-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good.)
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To: maggief

My guess is a lot of Saudi intelligence assets were compromised by those documents. So the Saud’s are trying to rescue and save them.


30 posted on 03/25/2015 4:34:43 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way. Was)
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To: umgud

Oil prices up in 3...2...1


31 posted on 03/25/2015 4:35:24 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: kristinn

I didn’t think they had the balls.


32 posted on 03/25/2015 4:36:19 PM PDT by semaj
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To: M Kehoe

$3 gas may be worth it, if it opens up West Texas wells and North American shell oil to more development.

That would reduce our dependence on ME oil even more. IIRC, we have reduced our dependency just over 50%.


33 posted on 03/25/2015 4:36:21 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: RandallFlagg

Drill (frack) Baby, drill (frack)!


34 posted on 03/25/2015 4:37:28 PM PDT by semaj
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To: TomGuy

The Iranians will control the Straits of Hormuz and the Yemen Red Sea southern exit (Suez canal). Look for Egypt to join the fray.


35 posted on 03/25/2015 4:39:05 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way. Was)
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To: kristinn
The Saudis are our allies and the Iranians are our new friends.

What could possibly go wrong here?

36 posted on 03/25/2015 4:39:35 PM PDT by Gritty (Obama is fighting on the side of our enemies, therefore, committing treason - David Meir-Levy)
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To: kristinn

Greta Van Susteren just announced that Saudi Arabia had begun operations in Yemen as part of a coalition of ten countries. She gave no further details. Anyone have more details? Have the Saudis put together their own alliance in the absence of the US doing anything but running and leaving 500 million in armaments for the Iranian rebels to seize and use?


37 posted on 03/25/2015 4:40:55 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Truth29
Some details here.
38 posted on 03/25/2015 4:43:22 PM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: unixfox

YEMEN crude oil production rank in the world - #39

SAUDI ARABIA crude oil production rank in the world - #1

Don’t see it going up all that much.

Maybe some...

.


39 posted on 03/25/2015 4:43:49 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Truth29
coalition of ten countries

Saudi seems to be taking sort of a lead -- and why not? This is now on their border.


40 posted on 03/25/2015 4:44:52 PM PDT by TomGuy
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