Let's Wrap This Baby Up, Folks!
Posted on 12/12/2018 9:27:59 AM PST by jazusamo
With the chamber set to take up two competing measures denouncing Saudi Arabia and its crown prince, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday morning urged his colleagues to show restraint and embrace a more modest bill that would condemn Riyadh for the killing of a U.S. journalist but wouldn’t formally cut off all backing for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, told fellow senators they should vote against a bipartisan bill that would end all U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s war against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Instead, he said lawmakers should back a more modest bill put forward by outgoing Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee.
Mr. Corker’s bill would formally declare Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “responsible” for the October murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a shocking slaying that drew global condemnation and called into question the decades-long Washington-Riyadh relationship.
The competing bills underscore the difficulty Washington has encountered in striking the right balance of holding Saudi Arabia — and the crown prince in particular — accountable for the unprecedented murder while not upending the sensitive and strategically important U.S.-Saudi relationship.
“Where Saudi Arabia is concerned, I think every single member of this body shares grave concerns about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and wants accountability,” Mr. McConnell said during his Senate floor speech. “We also want to preserve a 70-year partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia — and we want to ensure that it continues to serve American interests and stabilizes a dangerous and critical region.”
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Your “new” Flimsey Grahamnesty will show you how much he has “changed”.
The Senate bastards ought to be focused upon Iran which has slaughtered our troops in Iraq, our Marines in Lebanon (long ago) etc. etc. I don’t care what Saudis do to Muslim Brotherhood scumbags.... I DO care immensely about what Iran has done to our own people.
” bill that would condemn Riyadh for the killing of a U.S. journalist “
Bump!
When virtue signaling meets geopolitical reality.
The US Congress sucks at it.
They should follow Trump’s lead here and do nothing.
Nothing.
How many times have we heard that the Senate are the “adults in the room” and cool the angry passions of the voters? Here is one case where the voters are much more mature and realistic than the showboats in the Senate. I don’t care if the Crown Prince ordered the murder. Saudi Arabia is way too important of a strategic ally to impose sanctions or any other public punishment.
I couldn’t agree more.
It looks like the senate thinks they have to step in so if they must, just slapping the wrist of the Saudi crown prince would be enough in my view.
I agree.
Agreed! I wouldn't care if he was in the library, with the bone saw and cut off the dude's nutz.
One muzzie killing another mooselimb is reason to cheer, get him a beer, on me.
Oh, mooselimbs only drink alcohol when out of the kingdom, and never anything as low class as beer...sorry.
Corker wants to save his Iran Deal by weakening POTUS’s position in the middle east. Corker wants to run out the clock on the lame duck. Etc. These GOPe scum are beneath contempt.
Corker is a POS and a traitor but here I see him offering more of a token bill than anything substantive, let alone aggressive.
Am I reading it wrong?
Let's Wrap This Baby Up, Folks!
I find it comically exasperating. 19 Terrorists murder 3,000 people on 9/11, no big deal. Kill 1 journalist, who was debatably not a good guy, and the media goes bonkers.
Yep, the enemedia is going ballistic over the murder of a radical Islamist Saudi citizen and member of the MB in a Saudi embassy in Turkey, you just can’t make this crap up.
+1
Corker and his cohorts should lead a fact-finding expedition to The Kingdom to get to the truth of the matter. Like Leo Ryan’s little safari to Guyana.
Total nonsense.
I’d be hard pressed to find a measure that passed concerning the 100 actual journalists that have died in Mexico over the last 18 years.
That’s an excellent point, my FRiend.
Even the media seem to just give it lip service.
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