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Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Are you thinking we should just just let it slide? We destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan over this. But we should just wave our finger at Saudi Arabia? Maybe ask them nicely to not do it again? I don't favor war, but if I did, Saudi Arabia would become a pane of glass.
But before we go too far, they should release the documents. Then we can cut off Arabia from the world, and imprison GW Bush, Cheney, Rummy and Powell for not telling us the truth at the time. They are genuine war criminals.
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i also watched that 60 minutes segment. does not surprise me at all. i've posted here many times the Saudis were behind it. even without the release of the 28 pages, 60 minutes basically proved the Saudis were behind it.
and why not? a perfect setup for them. GW the cowboy used it as a pretext to invade Iraq, as the Saudis figured he would. We did their dirty work for them. in reality it didn't work out so well for the Saudis. yeah we got rid of Saddam for them, but Obama allowed Iran, another bitter enemy of the Saudi, to gain influence in Iraq.
because of Obama's mishandling of the Iraq exit, probably on purpose, ISIS rises. not exactly what the Saudis hoped for.
potentially, they are in more peril now than the status quo of Saddam. oops.
what do we do to punish the Saudis? kill them. economically of course. cheap oil is fucking them up economically. even if it means fracking, which is an environmental disaster, and any other non-oil based power source.
as for those "war criminals" COG, you realize that every senator who voted for invading Iraq is also a war criminal too? including the Hildebitch. does it matter that they were lied to on the premise? not really, they had their chance to refuse the evidence.
i do like your nuke 'em idea. Saudi Arabia is nothing but sand. what do you get when you subject sand to extreme heat? glass. lol.
if i might take a tangential tack here, if Truman, who was ultimately right to nuke Japan to end WW2, had the balls of Ronald Reagan, he would have threatened the Soviet Union to pull out of Europe or we would have nuked Moscow in 1945. no cold war, no Soviet Empire. simple.
what would the world today be like if the Soviets had not controlled western Europe from 1945 to 1991?
hmmm?