ONLY THE OBOMBS AND
GRIFTERS HILLARY AND BILLARY HAVE LOOTED THE COUNTRY AS MUCH AS THE BUSH CRIME
FAMILY!
The perilous ramifications of the September 11 attacks on the
United States are only now beginning to unfold. They will undoubtedly be felt
for generations to come. This is one of many sad conclusions readers will draw
from Craig Unger's exceptional book House of Bush House of Saud: The Secret Relationship
Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties. As Unger claims in this incisive study, the seeds for the
"Age of Terrorism" and September 11 were planted nearly 30 years ago
in what, at the time, appeared to be savvy business transactions that
subsequently translated into political currency and the union between the Saudi
royal family and the extended political family of George H. W. Bush.
HILLARY AND OBOMB’S DIRTY
SAUDIS DICTATORS….
How much as she sucked in?
DANCING WITH DICTATORS.... BOTH THE
CLINTONS ARE EXPERT DANCERS!
Hillary’s Russian connection
“Facilitating strategic
technology transfer in return for money is an old Clinton game. The
Chinese bought their way to access of considerable space technology when Bill
Clinton was president. Remember Charlie Trie, Loral, and the rest of the
crew?”
AND THEIR BRIBES JUST KEPT ROLLING…….
Saudi Arabia Rejects U.S. Senate’s ‘Interference’ in Kingdom
2:53
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia issued an unusually strong rebuke of the U.S. Senate on Monday, rejecting a bipartisan resolution that put the blame for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi squarely on the Saudi crown prince and describing it as interference in the kingdom’s affairs.
It’s the latest sign of how the relationship between the royal court and Congress has deteriorated, more than two months after Khashoggi was killed and dismembered by Saudi agents inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. The assassins have been linked to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
U.S. Senators last Thursday passed the measure that blamed the prince for Khashoggi’s killing and called on Riyadh to “ensure appropriate accountability.” Senators also passed a separate measure calling for the end of U.S. aid to the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
In a lengthy statement early Monday, Saudi Arabia said the Senate’s resolution “contained blatant interferences” in the kingdom’s internal affairs and undermines its regional and international role. The resolution was based on “unsubstantiated claims and allegations,” the statement also said.
“The kingdom categorically rejects any interference in its internal affairs, any and all accusations, in any manner, that disrespect its leadership … and any attempts to undermine its sovereignty or diminish its stature,” it said.
Such language is usually reserved for those who criticize the kingdom’s human rights record, such as Sweden in 2015 after the public flogging of a blogger, and Canada this year over the arrests of women’s rights activists.
But the statement was also tempered in saying the kingdom “reaffirms” its commitment to relations with the United States and describing the Senate as “an esteemed legislative body of an allied and friendly government.”
President Donald Trump has been reluctant to condemn the crown prince, despite U.S. intelligence officials concluding that Prince Mohammed must have at least had knowledge of the plot. Trump instead has touted Saudi arms deals worth billions of dollars and has thanked the Saudis for lower oil prices.
Saudi Arabia denies Prince Mohammed was involved in the Oct. 2 killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who wrote critically of the crown prince. Under intense international pressure, the kingdom recently acknowledged that the plot was masterminded by top Saudi agents close to Prince Mohammed.
After shifting accounts about what happened to Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia said its investigations concluded that the crown prince’s aides had plotted to bring Khashoggi by force back to Saudi Arabia and that the agents on the ground exceeded their authority and killed him.
The Saudi statement said the Senate’s position will not affect the kingdom’s “leading role in the region,” its role in supporting the stability of international energy markets, its counterterrorism cooperation and its stand with the U.S. in confronting Iran.
It “sends the wrong messages to all those who want to cause a rift in Saudi-U.S. relationship,” the statement added.
Saving the 9-11 invading Saudis’ arses!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/mike-lee-swamp-keeper-trump-and-his.html
"I doubt that
Trump understands -- or cares about -- what message he's sending. Wealthy
Saudis, including members of the extended royal family, have been his patrons
for years, buying his distressed properties when he needed money.
“The Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs
throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming fanatical
foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the Persian
Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
I
recommend that Ignatius read Raymond Ibrahim's outstanding book Sword
and Scimitar, which
contains accounts of dynastic succession in the Muslim monarchies of the Middle
East, where standard operating procedure for a new monarch on the death of his
father was to strangle all his brothers. Yes, it's
awful. But it has been happening for a very long
time. And it's not going to change quickly, no matter how outraged
we pretend to be. MONICA SHOWALTER
“You saved my a rse again and again… So, I’ll save yours like Bush and
Obama did!
WHO IS FINANCING ALL THE TRUMP AND SON-IN-LAW’S
REFINANCING SCAMS???
FOLLOW THE MONEY!
"I doubt that
Trump understands -- or cares about -- what message he's sending. Wealthy
Saudis, including members of the extended royal family, have been his patrons
for years, buying his distressed properties when he needed money. In the early
1990s, a Saudi prince purchased Trump's flashy yacht so that the
then-struggling businessman could come up with cash to stave off personal
bankruptcy, and later, the prince bought a share of the Plaza Hotel, one of
Trump's many business deals gone bad. Trump also sold an entire floor of his
landmark Trump Tower condominium to the Saudi government in 2001."
“The Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs
throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming fanatical
foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the Persian
Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
THE KORAN
BIBLE OF THE MUSLIM TERRORIST:
“The Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs
throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming fanatical
foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the Persian
Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
Koran 2:191
"slay the unbelievers wherever you find them"
Koran 3:21 "Muslims must not take the infidels as friends"
Koran 5:33 "Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam"
Koran 8:12 "Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Koran"
Koran 8:60 " Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels"
Koran 8:65 "The unbelievers are stupid, urge all Muslims to fight them"
Koran 9:5 "When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you find them"
Koran 9:123 "Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood"
Koran 22:19 "Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies"
Koran 47:4 "Do not hanker for peace with the infidels, behead them when you catch them".
Koran 3:21 "Muslims must not take the infidels as friends"
Koran 5:33 "Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam"
Koran 8:12 "Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Koran"
Koran 8:60 " Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels"
Koran 8:65 "The unbelievers are stupid, urge all Muslims to fight them"
Koran 9:5 "When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you find them"
Koran 9:123 "Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood"
Koran 22:19 "Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies"
Koran 47:4 "Do not hanker for peace with the infidels, behead them when you catch them".
“The tentacles of the Islamist hydra have deeply
penetrated the world. The Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood poses a clear
threat in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood also wages its deadly campaign through
its dozens of well-established and functioning branches all over the world.”
*
“The
Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs throughout the world where young boys
are brainwashed into becoming fanatical foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush
Saudis and other emirs of the Persian Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
* We
will take advantage of their immigration policy to infiltrate them.
* We
will use their own welfare system to provide us with food, housing, schooling,
and health care, while we out breed them and plot against them. We will
Caliphate on their dime.
* We
will use political correctness as a weapon. Anyone who criticizes us, we will
take the opportunity to grandstand and curry favor from the media and Democrats
and loudly accuse our critics of being an Islamophobe.
* We
will use their own discrimination laws against them and slowly introduce Sharia
Law into their culture..
infidel
women seen and treated?" RAYMOND IBRAHIM
Double Standard: Only
Obama Can Obliterate His Own Citizens
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/double_standard_only_obama_can_obliterate_his_own_citizens.html
Once a
Muslim, ALWAYS a murderer!
Praise be to
Allah the great fornicating dog!
"The Times also reported the story of
one 13-year-old victim who was
collected from a
children’s home, drugged with cocaine and mephedrone,
and raped by up
to seven men at so-called “sessions”, or sex parties, held by
the
groomers."
UNDERSTANDING
THE MUSLIM BARBARIANS
…. They live
to hate, kill, r ape, molest and mutilate according to their perverted s ex
practices perpetrated on women.
"If good Muslim women are seen and treated as possessions, how are
infidel
women seen and treated?" RAYMOND IBRAHIM
LONDON FALLS
TO MURDERING MUSLIMS…. Hey, they let them in for “cheap” labor like the U.S.
lets in murdering Mexicans!
ISLAM: THE GODLESS
CULT OF DEATH, HATE, MURDER and RAPE
Which will we surrender to first?
Muslims or Mexicans?
WHICH BEHEADS MORE ON U.S. UNDEFENDED
BORDERS???
Double Standard: Only
Obama Can Obliterate His Own Citizens
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/double_standard_only_obama_can_obliterate_his_own_citizens.html
Anwar
al-Awlaki was an American citizen who chose to advocate terrorism and built a
career on orchestrating activities intended to weaken, injure, and ultimately
overthrow the government of the United States. He was a member of
numerous subversive groups, dating back to his college days. He was
an avowed Islamist, who pledged to do all in his power to subjugate the world,
and everyone in it, under Islam, by any means necessary.
As
an able propagandist, Awlaki became a valuable recruiter for terror
groups. By any objective measure, the man was an enemy of his own
nation. Awlaki was a fiery Islamic preacher. His words
were unreservedly anti-American. They inflamed Islamic
passions. Awlaki wielded words as weapons.
He
met his demise in 2011, on the receiving end of an American drone strike in
Yemen ordered by then-president Barack Obama. That strike also
killed Awlaki's American-born 16-year-old son.
While
there were a few bleats and squawks from various civil libertarians on the left
and right over the assassination of not one, but two American citizens without
due process of law, the issue grew stale quickly as the media sensed that their
favorite son (Obama) might be harmed politically with further reporting.
Fast-forward
to the present day, and while keeping the circumstances of Awlaki's death in
the forefront of your mind, ask yourself why so many on both sides of the aisle
are now exercised over Saudi Arabia allegedly doing the exact same thing to a
Saudi national, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi national guilty of every crime (and a
few more!) for which Awlaki paid with his life.
There
is little reason to mourn the deaths of Khashoggi and Awlaki, as both surely
understood the risk inherent in attempting to bring down the governments of
their respective nations. The two scenarios are, in nearly all
aspects, identical.
Khashoggi
was Muslim Brotherhood. Not only did he belong to groups committed
to overthrowing the House of Saud, but he founded two of them
himself. He was a proud friend of Osama bin Laden, even taking up
arms and fighting alongside bin Laden in his younger days. He was as
committed an Islamic supremacist as Awlaki. Khashoggi's diatribes
were instrumental in sparking and sustaining the Muslim Brotherhood-led
uprisings collectively known as the "Arab Spring," which was not the
grassroots demand for democracy the Obama administration and the media claimed,
but rather a series of coups to replace secular-minded leaders with Islamist
theocrats who shared the ideology of the Brotherhood.
In
Khashoggi's posthumously published final article in the Washington Post, he
wrote: "The Arab world was ripe with hope during the spring of 2011,"
echoing verbatim the tape-recorded words of al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden,
praising the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and speaking
of a "rare historic opportunity" for Muslims to rise
up. Throughout Khashoggi's career, his words and those of bin Laden
were largely indistinguishable in sentiment, purpose, and vitriol toward the
West.
More
recently, Khashoggi became incensed over the progressive direction taken by
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince bin Salman regarding the social strictures of Islam
and the role of Islam in government. For the first time since the
founding of the kingdom one hundred years ago, Islam in Saudi Arabia has been
removed from its favored perch in the affairs of government. No
longer willing to accept a Middle East where the only exports are oil and
terrorism, MBS has taken concrete steps to enforce a growing separation of
church and state in his nation, has arrested and prosecuted those wealthy
patrons of terrorism among Saudi society, and has initiated diplomatic
overtures to Israel and the West.
MBS
is the embodiment of everything the Muslim Brotherhood despises, and his
continued rule in Saudi Arabia means the continued decline of the Brotherhood
and its influence. Khashoggi knew it. The Muslim Brotherhood knew
it. Most of all, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia knew it.
Did
bin Salman consider Khashoggi a threat to the throne, as the media and
political pundits claim? There is little evidence for
this. There are no elections in Saudi Arabia, so MBS couldn't have
worried about Khashoggi mounting a political campaign to win
control. Khashoggi's influence in the Middle East had been greatly
diminished with the failure of the Arab Spring, reducing his readership to
boutique status, no longer capable of fomenting major shifts of opinion.
If
the crown prince did indeed order his death, it likely wasn't for the reasons
Western media are reporting, but more likely due to his backdoor facilitation
of continued terror funding of Saudi origin through his so-called
democracy-building organizations. Khasoggi was a dangerous Islamic
ideologue whose employment as a "journalist" with the Washington Post
gave him a hyper-magnified platform for his radical Islamic thoughts and the
perfect patina of legitimacy to conceal his more nefarious activities.
Due
almost exclusively to the efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood in America, Islamic
ideology here in the U.S. is alive, well, and thriving. A federal
judge recently ruled that it is unconstitutional to prevent female genital
mutilation of girls as young as five, ruling that authorities have no
constitutional basis for interfering in that Islamic rite.
The
elevation of Islam above all other religions by criminalizing criticism of it
remains a shining beacon for Muslim activists and the groups to which they
belong. The international Muslim Brotherhood is not a fantastical
concoction of Arab-phobic morons, but is an active and powerful organization
that has been committed to civilizational jihad for the better part of a
century.
They
operate through front groups masquerading as civil rights organizations, and
the unwillingness of responsible authorities to investigate and dismantle these
Islamic Trojan horses does not constitute evidence of their innocence, but is
indicative of their mastery of propaganda and "lawfare," using our
open system against us. This is the arena where Khashoggi operated
in plain sight.
We
are in a war with Islamic extremism and the ideology that gave birth to groups
like ISIS and al-Qaeda. President Trump knows that a good
relationship with a progressive Muslim ruler in the Middle East like bin Salman
is key to winning that war. He was wise to make a measured response
to the murder of Khashoggi, eschewing the overreach demanded by his detractors.
Apparently,
either the Post didn't check into the background of this man it publicly mourns
or it wasn't bothered by his lifelong commitment to facilitating Islam's goal
of global dominance.
A
question remains unanswered by those calling for harsh sanction of the young
Saudi ruler: "Why is the U.S. permitted to defend itself by assassinating
a citizen who was a clear and active threat, but the Saudis are not?"
If
we ought to sanction the Saudi crown prince for an order we have no firm
evidence was given, then we certainly ought to revisit Obama's well documented
order and apply the same standard.
Dr. Christian is the executive director of the Global Faith
Institute and invites you to visit www.globafaith.org. Joe Herring
writes from Omaha, Neb.
Congress
overrides Obama veto of bill allowing 9/11 lawsuits
By
Tom Carter
30
September 2016
On
Wednesday, the US Congress overturned President Obama’s veto of legislation
that would permit victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks and their families
to sue Saudi Arabia. Declassified documents released this year confirm the
involvement of Saudi intelligence agents in the funding, organization, and
planning of the attacks—facts which were covered up for years by the Bush and
Obama administrations.
The
vote, 97-1 in the Senate and 348-77 in the House of Representatives, represents
the first and only congressional override of Obama’s presidency. Under the US
Constitution, the president’s veto can be overturned only by a two-thirds
majority vote in both houses of Congress.
The
Obama administration and the military and intelligence agencies, backed by
sections of the media, including the New York Times, have vigorously denounced
the legislation. Obama personally, together with Central Intelligence Agency
director John Brennan, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, and Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford among others, have all publicly opposed
the bill.
In a
letter to Congress opposing the legislation, Obama warned that the bill would
“threaten to erode sovereign principles that protect the United States,
including our U.S. Armed Forces and other officials, overseas.”
In a
lead editorial on Wednesday, the New York Times similarly warned that “if the
bill becomes law, other countries could adopt similar legislation defining
their own exemptions to sovereign immunity. Because no country is more engaged
in the world than the United States—with military bases, drone operations,
intelligence missions and training programs—the Obama administration fears that
Americans could be subject to legal actions abroad.”
In
other words, the bill would set a precedent for families of victims of American
aggression abroad—such as the tens of thousands of victims of “targeted
killings” ordered by Obama personally—to file lawsuits against US war criminal
in their own countries’ courts.
Obama
denounced the vote with unusual warmth on Wednesday. “It's an example of why
sometimes you have to do what's hard. And, frankly, I wish Congress here had done
what's hard,” Obama declared. “If you’re perceived as voting against 9/11
families right before an election, not surprisingly, that's a hard vote for
people to take. But it would have been the right thing to do ... And it was,
you know, basically a political vote.”
“Oh,
what a tangled web we weave,” Sir Walter Scott famously wrote, “When first we
practice to deceive!” As the tangled web of lies surrounding the September 11
attacks continue to unravel, one senses that the American ruling class and its
representatives do not see a clear way out of the dilemma.
Openly
torpedoing the legislation is tantamount to an admission of guilt. Indeed, the
Obama administration, the military and intelligence agencies, and theNew York
Times are publicly working to cover up a crime perpetrated by Al Qaeda and its
backers in Saudi Arabia, which in turn is an ally of the United States. The
mere fact that Obama vetoed this bill constitutes an admission that the US
government is hiding something with respect to the September 11 attacks.
The
alternative, from the standpoint of the American ruling class, is also fraught
with risks. Court proceedings initiated by the families of September 11 victims
will inevitably expose the role played by the Saudi monarchy, an ally of both
Al Qaeda and the United States, in the September 11 attacks. This, in turn,
will highlight long and sordid history of American support for Islamic
fundamentalism in the
Middle
East, which continues to the present day in Syria and Libya.
Perhaps
most dangerously of all, a full public accounting of the roles of Saudi
intelligence agents in the September 11 attacks will once again raise
questions about the role of the American state in the attacks. Why did US
intelligence
agencies
ignore the activities of Saudi agents before the attacks, based on Saudi
Arabia’s supposed status as a US ally?
Why
did the US government deliberately cover up the Saudi connection after the
fact, instead claiming that Afghanistan was a “state sponsor of terrorism” and
that Iraq was developing “weapons of mass destruction?” Why was nobody
prosecuted?
The
New York Times, for its part, simply lied about the evidence of Saudi
complicity. “The legislation is motivated by a belief among the 9/11 families
that Saudi Arabia played a role in the attacks, because 15 of the 19 hijackers,
who were members of Al Qaeda, were Saudis,” the editors wrote. “But the
independent American commission that investigated the attacks found no evidence
that the Saudi government or senior Saudi officials financed the terrorists.”
In
fact, at least two of the hijackers received aid from Omar al-Bayoumi, who was
identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Saudi intelligence agent
with “ties to terrorist elements.” Some of the hijackers were paid for work in
fictitious jobs from companies affiliated with the Saudi Defense Ministry, with
which Al-Bayoumi was in close contact. The night before the attacks, three of
the hijackers stayed at the same hotel as Saleh al-Hussayen, a prominent Saudi
government official.
These
and other facts were confirmed by the infamous 28-page suppressed chapter of
the 2002 report issued by the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community
Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. After
14 years of stalling, the document was finally released to the public this
summer.
Yet
the New York Times continues to describe the Saudi monarchy, the principal
financier and sponsor of Islamic fundamentalist groups throughout the world, as
“a partner in combating terrorism.”
The
Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, passed Wednesday, is a direct
reaction to these revelations of Saudi complicity in the September 11 attacks,
under pressure from organizations of survivors and families of victims. The law
amends the federal judicial code to allow US courts “to hear cases involving
claims against a foreign state for injuries, death, or damages that occur
inside the United States as a result of. .. an act of terrorism, committed
anywhere by a foreign state or official.”
Although
the bill nowhere names Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government has threatened
massive retaliation, including by moving $750 billion in assets out of
the country before they can be seized in American legal proceedings.
This reaction alone confirms the monarchy’s guilt.
During
Wednesday’s session, many of the statements on the floor of the Senate were
nervous and apprehensive. Casting his vote in favor of the bill, Republican
Senator Bob Corker declared, “I have tremendous concerns about the sovereign
immunity procedures that would be set in place by the countries as a result of
this vote.” More than one legislator noted that if the bill had unintended
consequences, it would be modified or repealed.
The
anxious comments of legislators and the crisscrossing denunciations within the
ruling elite reflect the significance of this controversy for the entire
American political establishment. For 15 years, the American population has
been relentlessly told that the events of September 11, 2001 “changed
everything,” warranting the elimination of democratic rights, the
militarization of the police, renditions, torture, assassinations, totalitarian
levels of spying, death and destruction across the Middle East, and trillions
of dollars of expenditures.
The
collapse of the official version of that day’s events shows that American
politics for 15 years has been based on a lie.
Graham: ‘I Can’t Ever See Myself Doing Business with Saudi Arabia’ Unless There’s a Change in Leadership
Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Jeanne Shaneen (D-N.H.) (l-r) (Screenshot)
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) pledged Wednesday that he will never do business with Saudi Arabia unless they get rid of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, commonly referred to as MBS, who has been implicated as ordering the murder and dismemberment of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“The individual – the crown prince – is so toxic, so tainted, so flawed that I can’t ever see myself doing business with Saudi Arabia in the future unless there’s a change there,” he told reporters during a press conference on the next steps in Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi’s death.
Graham was joined by Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jeanne Shaneen (D-N.H.) and Chris Murphy (D- Conn.) in pushing for Senate passage of their bill, the Saudi Arabia Accountability in Yemen Act.
The bill (S.3652) calls for suspension of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, prohibition on U.S. refueling of Saudi Coalition Aircraft engaged in the civil war in Yemen, sanctions for people blocking humanitarian access in Yemen, sanctions for people supporting the Houthis in Yemen, an accountability report for all actors in Yemen in violation of international war or guilty of war crimes and harm to civilians, mandatory sanctions on persons responsible for Khashoggi’s death, and a report on human rights in Saudi Arabia.
“Those are some of the elements of the legislation we believe both advocate to move towards a resolution of the Yemen conflict and at the same time sends a global message that just because you’re our ally you cannot kill with impunity and believe you can get away with it,” Menendez told reporters.
“That’s a global message that we need to send, and at the end of the day if we don’t send that message, I worry for what path we move ahead,” he said.
“The individual – the crown prince – is so toxic, so tainted, so flawed that I can’t ever see myself doing business with Saudi Arabia in the future unless there’s a change there,” he told reporters during a press conference on the next steps in Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi’s death.
Graham was joined by Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jeanne Shaneen (D-N.H.) and Chris Murphy (D- Conn.) in pushing for Senate passage of their bill, the Saudi Arabia Accountability in Yemen Act.
The bill (S.3652) calls for suspension of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, prohibition on U.S. refueling of Saudi Coalition Aircraft engaged in the civil war in Yemen, sanctions for people blocking humanitarian access in Yemen, sanctions for people supporting the Houthis in Yemen, an accountability report for all actors in Yemen in violation of international war or guilty of war crimes and harm to civilians, mandatory sanctions on persons responsible for Khashoggi’s death, and a report on human rights in Saudi Arabia.
“Those are some of the elements of the legislation we believe both advocate to move towards a resolution of the Yemen conflict and at the same time sends a global message that just because you’re our ally you cannot kill with impunity and believe you can get away with it,” Menendez told reporters.
“That’s a global message that we need to send, and at the end of the day if we don’t send that message, I worry for what path we move ahead,” he said.
Graham said the current relationship with Saudi Arabia isn’t working for American.
“They have been strategic allies and could be in the future, but right now, it is more of a burden than it is an asset, and why did I say that? This country led by the de facto leaders, the crown prince, has been a wrecking ball, and the Khashoggi incident is just one of many but the most egregious, and I think most people can relate to why we’re upset,” he said.
“To be an ally of America, I think more is expected from you, not less. If you want to integrate your economy into ours, there’s certain things you have to accept like the rule of law. If you want to buy our weapons, there’s certain things you have to accept – how you use them matters,” Graham said.
“So I just want everybody in the region to know that if you’re thinking about doing what MBS did, and you want to have a relationship with the United States, good luck. It’s not gonna happen. I want let the president to know that I think you’re right about Saudi Arabia having been a strategic ally, and they could be in the future, but I think you’re wrong about what’s going on here,” the senator said, addressing President Trump.
Graham explained the reason why he supports the bill.
“The reason I am supporting this approach next year is I’m never going to let this go until things change in Saudi Arabia. This is coming from the biggest supporter of the relationship in the past,” the senator said.
“Myself and Senator McCain sometimes have had the lonely job of defending this strategic relationship in the past, but as to me, those days are over, because what’s going on in Saudi Arabia between the Khashoggi murder and MBS’s complicit in it, the dismembering of Yemen, the imprisonment of the Lebanese prime minister in the most bizarre thing I’ve seen in 20 years, the embargo of Qatar without any notice to us as a nation where we have 13,000 troops,” he said.
“Enough is enough. So to our friends in Saudi Arabia, you’re never going to have a relationship with the United States Senate unless things change, and it’s up to you to figure out what that change should be,” Graham said, adding that “the current construct is not working.”
The Senate on Wednesday voted 60 to 39 to advance the resolution. The final Senate vote is expected to take place on Thursday.
Murphy thanked his Senate colleagues for advancing the measure, saying it “sends a clear signal to this administration and to Saudi Arabia that if this administration doesn’t reorient our policy towards Saudi Arabia, then Congress is going to do it.”
“Saudi Arabia is our ally, but when your ally jumps into a pool of sharks, you aren’t obligated to follow them. There is a line that Saudi Arabia crossed. I would argue long ago. Unfortunately, it is now up to the United States Congress to try to make clear what this relationship can be and has to be going into the future,” he said.
“Yemen is one of the symptoms, and unfortunately, it is the most disastrous of them,” Murphy said, adding that “85,000 kids under the age of five have died from starvation and disease.”
“All the evidence points to the fact that many times the Saudis are using our bombs to deliberately target either civilians or civilian infrastructure, but as Senator Graham mentioned, from the blockage of Qatar to the kidnapping of the Lebanese prime minister, Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy went off the rails some time ago, and we are still the senior partner in this relationship,” he said.
“They have been strategic allies and could be in the future, but right now, it is more of a burden than it is an asset, and why did I say that? This country led by the de facto leaders, the crown prince, has been a wrecking ball, and the Khashoggi incident is just one of many but the most egregious, and I think most people can relate to why we’re upset,” he said.
“To be an ally of America, I think more is expected from you, not less. If you want to integrate your economy into ours, there’s certain things you have to accept like the rule of law. If you want to buy our weapons, there’s certain things you have to accept – how you use them matters,” Graham said.
“So I just want everybody in the region to know that if you’re thinking about doing what MBS did, and you want to have a relationship with the United States, good luck. It’s not gonna happen. I want let the president to know that I think you’re right about Saudi Arabia having been a strategic ally, and they could be in the future, but I think you’re wrong about what’s going on here,” the senator said, addressing President Trump.
Graham explained the reason why he supports the bill.
“The reason I am supporting this approach next year is I’m never going to let this go until things change in Saudi Arabia. This is coming from the biggest supporter of the relationship in the past,” the senator said.
“Myself and Senator McCain sometimes have had the lonely job of defending this strategic relationship in the past, but as to me, those days are over, because what’s going on in Saudi Arabia between the Khashoggi murder and MBS’s complicit in it, the dismembering of Yemen, the imprisonment of the Lebanese prime minister in the most bizarre thing I’ve seen in 20 years, the embargo of Qatar without any notice to us as a nation where we have 13,000 troops,” he said.
“Enough is enough. So to our friends in Saudi Arabia, you’re never going to have a relationship with the United States Senate unless things change, and it’s up to you to figure out what that change should be,” Graham said, adding that “the current construct is not working.”
The Senate on Wednesday voted 60 to 39 to advance the resolution. The final Senate vote is expected to take place on Thursday.
Murphy thanked his Senate colleagues for advancing the measure, saying it “sends a clear signal to this administration and to Saudi Arabia that if this administration doesn’t reorient our policy towards Saudi Arabia, then Congress is going to do it.”
“Saudi Arabia is our ally, but when your ally jumps into a pool of sharks, you aren’t obligated to follow them. There is a line that Saudi Arabia crossed. I would argue long ago. Unfortunately, it is now up to the United States Congress to try to make clear what this relationship can be and has to be going into the future,” he said.
“Yemen is one of the symptoms, and unfortunately, it is the most disastrous of them,” Murphy said, adding that “85,000 kids under the age of five have died from starvation and disease.”
“All the evidence points to the fact that many times the Saudis are using our bombs to deliberately target either civilians or civilian infrastructure, but as Senator Graham mentioned, from the blockage of Qatar to the kidnapping of the Lebanese prime minister, Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy went off the rails some time ago, and we are still the senior partner in this relationship,” he said.
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