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9/11 and Saudi Arabia

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Apr 14, 2016.

  1. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    The problem with Saudi is if we leave the royals to their own devices, they will be overthrown by the jihadists in less than six months. If you think it's bad now, just wait till that country becomes Syria on steroids. The world doesn't need yet another failed state incubating terrorism, especially a rich one with all that oil.
     
  2. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Why the hell couldn't we have become buddies with Venezuela? They're not a jihadist breeding ground, they're just down the road and they have more oil than the Saudis anyway.
     
    Last edited: May 12, 2016
  3. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    It's not so much the oil, TT, it's guardianship of Mecca and Medina. If those two cities go up for grabs to whoever's strong enough to seize them, what's happened in the last 30 years in the Middle East will look like the Era of Good Feelings.
     
  4. Iron_chet

    Iron_chet Well-Known Member

    More oil than the Saudis to your North as well! Just need to build the Keystone pipeline.
     
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  5. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    Hopefully when Texas secedes from the United States, they wait a few weeks to declare war against the Saudis so that the Bush Family can sort out which side they'll support.
     
  6. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

  7. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    *Skips all headlines that include the words 'Clinton' and 'Foundation.'*
     
  8. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    9/11 is the best thing that ever happened to the Democrat Party.
     
  9. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    Take a walk. See if you can leave some if this awful outside.
     
  10. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    We can do a lot more damage to their economy than they can to ours.
     
  11. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    I'm sure that was part of George W. Bush's plan when he ignored Osama until 9/12
     
  12. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Congress releases long-classified ‘28 pages’ on alleged Saudi ties to 9/11

    Congress on Friday released 28 previously classified pages discussing potential connections between Saudi Arabia and the hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

    The House Intelligence Committee voted to reveal the pages, which are part of a larger 2002 investigation of the 9/11 attacks by the House and Senate intelligence committees. Their classification has proven controversial because of allegations that they contain information linking Saudi Arabia to the hijackers.

    Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for their release, but the Obama administration has said it would do so only after careful review. Administration officials have also downplayed the significance of the information, noting that the 9/11 commission created by Congress thoroughly examined the issue and did not find evidence of a link between Saudi officials and the hijackers who staged the attacks on New York and Washington.


    Read the long-classified '28 pages' on alleged Saudi ties to 9/11
     
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