JohnPowell wrote:
The_Walrus wrote:
Disgraceful. Capital punishment, denial of due process, torture, and suppression of free speech are just unacceptable. I hope the global community puts diplomatic pressure on the Saudis over this.
Not sure why you're trying to tie this to one Presidential candidate, given Trump's equally close ties with Saudi Arabia.
He's spoken against them too, where as Clinton just takes money from them as they punish homosexuals and punish women for being raped, while Clinton pretends to be "for women".
These crooks like Clinton and Boris Johnson don't care. Look at Johnson's comments regarding us selling weapons to the Saudis for them to bomb schools and hospitals in Yemen. He said that me might as well sell them weapons because someone else will otherwise. That's psychotic.
It's not psychotic. Perhaps you mean psychopathic.
You're right, Trump is a noted critic of the Saudis whereas Clinton never says anything against them.
Some quotes from Trump on the Saudis:
"We need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region"
"The Saudis have exported more extreme ideology than any other place on earth over the course of the last 30 years."
"The Saudis and others are shipping large amounts of weapons — and pretty indiscriminately — not at all targeted toward the people that we think would be the more moderate, least likely, to cause problems in the future."
"The Saudis in particular are not necessarily the stablest regimes that you can find on the planet."
"Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide... Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qa’ida, the Taliban, [Lashkar-e-Taiba], and other terrorist groups... It has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority.”
08 Nov 2016, 2:49 pm
