2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumwho does SAUDI ARABIA want to see in the oval office next year?
anybody care to posit?
hack89
(39,171 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)I suspect they support Hillary simply because Trump is too unpredictable.
reddread
(6,896 posts)and you know who they like doing business with.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)And then look at who made it.
I wouldn't trust Saudi Arabia as far as I could sling a piano.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)I do know Bernie Sanders doesn't have a PNAC bone in his body or PNAC skeleton in his closet.
So that might leave him off the list.
Who are the Bushes backing?
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)Jitter65
(3,089 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)is that sexist?
EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)An investigation finds that countries that gave to the foundation saw an increase in State Department-approved arms sales.
By Bryan Schatz
In 2011, the State Department cleared an enormous arms deal: Led by Boeing, a consortium of American defense contractors would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns over the kingdom's troublesome human rights record. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, Saudi Arabia had contributed $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, and just two months before the jet deal was finalized, Boeing donated $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to an International Business Times investigation released Tuesday.
The Saudi transaction is just one example of nations and companies that had donated to the Clinton Foundation seeing an increase in arms deals while Hillary Clinton oversaw the State Department. IBT found that between October 2010 and September 2012, State approved $165 billion in commercial arms sales to 20 nations that had donated to the foundation, plus another $151 billion worth of Pentagon-brokered arms deals to 16 of those countriesa 143 percent increase over the same time frame under the Bush Administration. The sales boosted the military power of authoritarian regimes such as Qatar, Algeria, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, which, like Saudi Arabia, had been criticized by the department for human rights abuses.
reddread
(6,896 posts)not to be paranoid,
but could they take over one (or more) of the political parties?
EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)That tells you it's already run deep in both parties.
The financial ties to SA run deeper than the populist ties to our citizens.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Though they are undergoing a massive shift in economic policy.
reddread
(6,896 posts)is that what you are implying?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)tails I lose.
bjo59
(1,166 posts)Bush Family Friends
icecreamfan
(115 posts)and more likely to let them escalate things in Yemen and ship them a lot more bombs to kill people with.
Given how much money Saudi Arabia has given to Clinton's foundation, I suspect they'd be pretty happy with a Clinton presidency.
reddread
(6,896 posts)they really like some violence.