who does SAUDI ARABIA want to see in the oval office next year?

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anybody care to posit?

[hack89]

1. Completely irrelevant. nt

[reddread]

3. only if you hold terrorism to be a non-existant problem

[hack89]

6. Between Hillary and Trump

I suspect they support Hillary simply because Trump is too unpredictable.

[reddread]

8. because they like cutting the heads off of dissidents

and you know who they like doing business with.

[VulgarPoet]

7. Just look at the flavor of Islam ISIS worships

And then look at who made it.

I wouldn't trust Saudi Arabia as far as I could sling a piano.

[KansDem]

2. Someone who won't release the 28 pages...nt

[Octafish]

4. Somebody PNAC Friendly

I do know Bernie Sanders doesn't have a PNAC bone in his body or PNAC skeleton in his closet.

So that might leave him off the list.

Who are the Bushes backing?

[Electric Monk]

5. The one with the longest and deepest ties to the BFEE, of course. nt

[Jitter65]

9. Remember, they don't like women. All the more reason for Hillary. nt

[reddread]

10. they like the Clinton Foundation though

is that sexist?

[EndElectoral]

11. Pretty Obvious. HRC as outlined below.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/hillary-clinton-foundation-state-arms-deals\

Hillary Clinton Oversaw US Arms Deals to Clinton Foundation Donors
An investigation finds that countries that gave to the foundation saw an increase in State Department-approved arms sales.
—By Bryan Schatz

In 2011, the State Department cleared an enormous arms deal: Led by Boeing, a consortium of American defense contractors would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns over the kingdom's troublesome human rights record. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, Saudi Arabia had contributed $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, and just two months before the jet deal was finalized, Boeing donated $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to an International Business Times investigation released Tuesday.

The Saudi transaction is just one example of nations and companies that had donated to the Clinton Foundation seeing an increase in arms deals while Hillary Clinton oversaw the State Department. IBT found that between October 2010 and September 2012, State approved $165 billion in commercial arms sales to 20 nations that had donated to the foundation, plus another $151 billion worth of Pentagon-brokered arms deals to 16 of those countries—a 143 percent increase over the same time frame under the Bush Administration. The sales boosted the military power of authoritarian regimes such as Qatar, Algeria, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, which, like Saudi Arabia, had been criticized by the department for human rights abuses.

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12. how much say do you think SA has in our internal affairs?

not to be paranoid,
but could they take over one (or more) of the political parties?

[EndElectoral]

21. Ask yourself why the classified 911 documents Graham has been pushing for have not been released

That tells you it's already run deep in both parties.

The financial ties to SA run deeper than the populist ties to our citizens.

[NCTraveler]

13. The last thing they want is a continuation of Obamas policy of buying less of their oil.

Though they are undergoing a massive shift in economic policy.

[reddread]

14. you mean a pro-fracking policy?

is that what you are implying?

[NCTraveler]

15. That has been a big part of the transition. Yes. nt.

[reddread]

16. well do me with a fork

tails I lose.

[bjo59]

17. Who in this scenario has given millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation?

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18. BFF's

Bush Family Friends

[icecreamfan]

19. Clinton is more likely to escalate things in Syria to promote SA's pipeline interests

and more likely to let them escalate things in Yemen and ship them a lot more bombs to kill people with.

Given how much money Saudi Arabia has given to Clinton's foundation, I suspect they'd be pretty happy with a Clinton presidency.

[reddread]

20. talk about shit stirring

they really like some violence.