Saudi-US arms deal includes plans for 150 Lockheed Martin Black Hawk helicopters

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  1. VietVet

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    VietVet Well-Known Member

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    Even the global warming deniers ought to realize that if we would pursue alternate energy, and massively reduce oil use, we would be far better off telling Saudi Arabia to take a hike.
    Let them drink oil.
     
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    We are better off telling anyone to take a hike rather than be dependent on them.
    To this end I hold "Food Production" the main commodity of security.

    Yum - Yum

    Moi :oldman:
    California is a food producer.
    Don't lose it to fracking.
    :rant:


    r > g


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    Viva Acadia liberte
    Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic,
    regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.

     
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    What a joke - part of trumps plan to bring back jobs.
     
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    Even worse, we're helping them kill Yemeni civilians... which makes me recall what a well known Minister said about our civil war... something which caused the most deaths of any war our country had.

    He said one person was killed for every strike on a black slaves back. If that held true then, and if it holds true now, then how many Americans will die in our next civil war, (and it's coming), over the deaths and sufferings we have caused throughout the world?
     
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    So when most of 9/11 terrorist were Saudi Arabians, apparently it means something.
    And when the biggest thieve of the world, is Bernard Madoff, an American Jew.
    Does this mean something too?
     
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    Trump is on the take from them I bet. Sadly the only angle the main stream media cares about is Russia when we have stuff like this going on in the open.

    Saudi Arabia should pay for what it supported on 9/11 but I don't think it ever will.
     
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    The Black Hawks will all be built in the USA, they will just be assembled in Saudi Arabia.
     
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    And how about this?

    http://www.arabnews.com/node/1102401/business-economy
     
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    How Saudi Arabia greets a REAL president:

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    No head covering for the beautiful Melania!

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    Yes lets be scared of terrorists flying helicoptors over here to bomb us.
     
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    Good.. The Saudis created 500,000 manufacturing jobs 4 years ago.. They are big in bauxite mining and making aluminum.

    In 2000 there were 250 companies in South Carolina doing business with KSA so yes, jobs, jobs, jobs.
     
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    Saudis like Americans...
     
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    Oh please... Why would you want Margot2 be upset now?
     
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    This is the Orange Doosh — Making Saudi Arabia Great Again*.


    *(Or, helping to fund another terrorist attack against the U.S.?)
     
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    Hey look: Obama getting greeted with the EXACT SAME honor guard and carpet!

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    Uh ... Michelle Obama didn't wear a head scarf when she went to Saudi Arabia, either. She only wore a headscarf twice -- once when visiting a temple in Jakarta, and once when visiting the Pope.

    In neither case was it required. It was done as a sign of respect. Something you do from a position of strength.
     
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    Why did Obama deny bowing to the King, when he clearly did?

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    The White House denied that the president bowed

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-bowing-to-King-Abdullah-of-Saudi-Arabia.html
     
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    American women never wear a headscarf. I never did... nor did our mothers.
     
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    Who the hell cares?

    The president bowing or not bowing in cultures where bowing is a thing is completely unimportant to actual reality. Everyone knows that the most powerful and important person in that room is the President. There is no question which way the power runs. His efforts to be polite -- or not -- have no significance outside of personal manners.
     
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    Haha look at Trump walking down that red carpet like a boss.

    Man oh man just a few months ago it was guaranteed he would lose right guys?

    Now look at em... Hahaha it's too much

    Well ill givem a thumbs up on this deal since it's good for PR and quite a few normal people will benefit but.. It's one deal and we need bigger broader trade deal reforms and tax reform.. If he truly intends to bring about economic change for the better.

    He has time, plenty of it with this Congress
     
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    Then why did he lie about it?
     
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    450 jobs Trump created in Saudi Arabia, I personally have no problem with this except it goes against everything he promised during his America first election campaign.

    Shouldn't this deal go to American workers? A perfect opportunity for him to bring jobs back to America and he likely did not even give American workers a second thought.
     
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    #1, it's not obvious that they did.

    #2, Who cares? It was a bullshit unimportant criticism to begin with.
     
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    Then why lie about it?
     

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