Posted on 10/16/2018 10:36:56 PM PDT by changedLiberal
Yep.
Just look at the people pushing this:
Graham, Flake, etc.
With all the other atrocities the Saudis commit. I should be distressed over this one? It’s like Water is Wet.
For Linseed, this is one of those leftovers from cavorting with McCain all those years. He needs it covered up.
Graham still cannot be trusted. Be very leery.
I agree. He is a snake. Pulled that speech because the Bushes are connected to Kavanaugh, which is unsettling in itself, and because he wants Grassley’s position on the committee.
But he is still a Deep State operative.
In high school, Jamal Khashoggi had a good friend. His name was Osama bin Laden.
“We were hoping to establish an Islamic state anywhere,” Khashoggi reminisced about their time together in the Muslim Brotherhood.
[snip]
Ever since Civil War, DNC = terrorists: KKK, black panthers; muslim refugees, BLM ...
“While this may well be so, the fact remains that Khashoggi was now a journalist working and living in the US as a permanent resident...”
Good grief man!
He was ‘Muslim Brotherhood’. They support terrorists!
His friend was bin Laden.
He’s a casualty of the war on terror.
One last ‘Extra’ for the day.
Frontpage Magazine:
In high school, Jamal Khashoggi had a good friend. His name was Osama bin Laden.
“We were hoping to establish an Islamic state anywhere,” Khashoggi reminisced about their time together in the Muslim Brotherhood.
[snip]
Ever since Civil War, DNC = terrorists: KKK, black panthers; muslim refugees, BLM ...
Yes, this story is basically about the media, not about the real-world events.
Just like bin Laden, he was determined to make Saudi Arabia the next Taliban.
The bottom line is that the Saudis are trying to drag a bunch of terrorist-wannabes kicking and screaming into civilization against their will while creeps like KHASHOGGI want to turn Arabia into the next Taliban.
I say more power to them!
Too bad the creep got tortured, but did we complain when Stalin’s army ravaged Berlin? That was a lot more brutal. This was surgical in comparison.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is against Wahhabism aka radical Islam. That’s the key point to understand.
Don’t forget that bin Laden tried to drive the Saudis into becoming a terror state. They fought him to the death on that.
Quick History lesson:
The Saudis’ ancestors were allies of the UK. They gained power through denouncing the earlier dynasty as too westernized. And the UK fell for their tricks despite the strident objections of Lawrence of Arabia [the most brilliant Middle East geopolitical strategist of his day].
Now the Saudis are seeking to be modern [it took us a long time to get them there] and Rubio is falling for the new anti-western movement which could place ISIS on the Saudi throne or something similar.
It hardly matters either way IMO.
We are enemies of Islamic terrorism. It is our duty as citizens to be so. And what kind of fuss should we make over the way an enemy was killed by an ally? What kind of fuss did we make when Stalin rolled his tanks over Germans?
He was a fifth columnist, a propagandist.
Deep State shenanigans. President Trump needs to be careful.
remember this bizarre episode:
4 Aug 2013: Guardian: How Baroness Ashton’s gift for consensus opened the door to Mohamed Morsi
by Elizabeth Day
She has been criticised for a ‘soft power’ image, but the EU foreign policy chief was the first diplomat to convince the military in Egypt to allow access to the ex-president for ‘frank’ talks that left her hopeful for the future of democracy
Last week was no exception – in the early hours of Tuesday Ashton was taken by helicopter to Egypt, where she met the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, who is being held at a secret location.
“He was very pleased to see me,” says Ashton when we meet in a central London cafe the day after her return. The pair had a “friendly and open and very frank” conversation. She says Morsi appears to be being treated well – and his fridge is stocked with food. “He was, I thought, on good form given all the circumstances,” she says.
Ashton is the first foreign diplomat who has been allowed access to Morsi since his arrest on 3 July, when he was deposed by the head of the Egyptian army, General Abdulfattah al-Sisi, and replaced with an interim president...
Since then, the country has plunged deeper into turmoil following two turbulent years of transition to democracy...
All of which makes it fairly extraordinary that Ashton, a slight and softly spoken 57-year-old, succeeded in meeting him where many other diplomats and heads of state had failed...
She recalls having met a young woman in Benghazi, Libya, at the height of the civil war there two years ago. The woman said to her: “We want what you’ve got. You have democracy as part of your everyday life.”...
It is no coincidence, then, that one of her closest professional acquaintances is US secretary of state Hillary Clinton – another woman operating at the highest levels in a male-dominated sphere.
“She was a great ally from the very beginning,” says Ashton. “There is a bit of the ‘girls in public life’ about. There were things that we didn’t have to say between us that we understood about the way that women talk to each other.”
In turn, Clinton has said that she values being able to “blow off a little steam” with Ashton and chat about family and other subjects, as well as geopolitical problems...
Ashton refuses to be drawn on recent news reports of online harassment of feminist campaigners and journalists...
After her meeting with Morsi, Ashton has cast herself as a potential mediator in the disputes between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian military...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/04/baroness-ashton-morsi-secret-meeting
I’m not familiar with Ashton.
More familiar with Lawrence of Arabia.
[Embarassed grin.]
should have said The Guardian was/is clearly pro-MB too.
also remember:
Feb 2011: CNET: Google proud of Wael Ghonim’s role in Egyptian protests
CEO Eric Schmidt expressed pride in Google employee Wael Ghonim, who has been credited with helping organize the protests that eventually brought down the Mubarak government.
by Lance Whitney
Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Schmidt addressed the topic of Ghonim, Google’s head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, who used Facebook and other online tools to help spark the protests in Egypt…
Until recently, Google management had been silent about Ghonim’s leading role in the protest movement, leaving some to wonder about the company’s position on the matter and whether Ghonim would be allowed to return to his job. In an interview Friday, Ghonim told CBS News’ Katie Couric that he and Google mutually agreed it would be best for him to take a leave of absence during his participation in the protests. (CNET News is published by CBS Interactive, a unit of CBS.)…
In a separate interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday, Ghonim also credited the Internet and social networking as the keys to the revolution.
“If there was no social networks, it would have never been sparked,” he told Harry Smith. “Because the whole thing before the revolution was the most critical thing. Without Facebook, without Twitter, without Google, without YouTube, this would have never happened.”…
Ghonim had been arrested and detained by the Egyptian government for more than two weeks before being freed early last week. In his “60 Minutes” interview, he credited Google with fighting for his release.
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-proud-of-wael-ghonims-role-in-egyptian-protests/
Correct! ! !
What about the American border patrol guard killed in fast and furious? The American Jewish newsie that had his throat slit in a video? Seth Richards?
Why so much outrage over osama bin barack's pal?
I don't give a fat rat's ass, one less mooselimb terrorist.
See my tag line.
another one to remember:
15 Apr 2011: NYT: U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings
By RON NIXON
A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington, according to interviews in recent weeks and American diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks…
The Republican and Democratic institutes are loosely affiliated with the Republican and Democratic Parties. They were created by Congress and are financed through the National Endowment for Democracy, which was set up in 1983 to channel grants for promoting democracy in developing nations. The National Endowment receives about $100 million annually from Congress. Freedom House also gets the bulk of its money from the American government, mainly from the State Department...
Some Egyptian youth leaders attended a 2008 technology meeting in New York, where they were taught to use social networking and mobile technologies to promote democracy. Among those sponsoring the meeting were Facebook, Google, MTV, Columbia Law School and the State Department…
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html
The KSA holds *all* the cards for the foreseeable future.
The KSA has the US over a barrel for the foreseeable future.
Every American willing to endure pain from death of the petro-dollar would fit into the average NFL stadium.
Not.
But he scribbled an anti-American screed a time or two or maybe just lent his name to it, for an American newspaper.
Therefore according to some it is in our vital national interest to bomb the Saudis or something like that.
Don't ask me to explain, it makes no sense to me either.
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