Long story short. BAE spends £1 billion in corrupt illegal bribes for Saudi arms deal. Years later, just as a police investigation is closing in on them the Govt (who I also pit for sheer gutlessness) call off the dogs on the grounds of ‘National Security.’
In the court challenge secret papers have revealed that:
Saudi Arabia - the funders of Wahhabism - the ideology of choice for terrorists. Saudi Arabia - home of the 9/11 terrorists. Saudi Arabia - the continued number one source of foreign insurgents in Iraq. Saudi Arabia - the font and source of Islamic terrorism.
If we’re going to attack oil-rich nations on specious bloody grounds let’s at least go for the jugular.
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Saudi Arabia - the funders of Wahhabism - the ideology of choice for terrorists. Saudi Arabia - home of the 9/11 terrorists. Saudi Arabia - the continued number one source of foreign insurgents in Iraq. Saudi Arabia - the font and source of Islamic terrorism.
If we’re going to attack oil-rich nations on specious bloody grounds let’s at least go for the jugular.
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You left out “Saudi Arabia”, location of Mecca and Medina and billions of dollars in arms. Attacking them would be WW3. The best way to attack them is to wean ourselves from the one product that keeps them from being just another backwards ass people nobody much gives a damn about.
I am fucking disgusted that the government actually gave in to the motherfucker rather than going public with this. Corruption at the highest level, capitulation to terror threats in cowed secrecy. Fucking Blair. Our allies? Murderous cunts. Motherfuck.
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You left out “Saudi Arabia”, location of Mecca and Medina and billions of dollars in arms. Attacking them would be WW3. The best way to attack them is to wean ourselves from the one product that keeps them from being just another backwards ass people nobody much gives a damn about.
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Yea - I know. The sooner we go all out for alternative energy and let these people piss off back to the Dark Ages the better.
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IMO this capitulation was more to do with influence and money than a threat of violence.
These fuckers are all in bed with each other. They make billions upon billions for the companies they work for after they leave power.
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Too right. Or as in the Bush family case - they are in bed with them on a permanent basis. I don’t recall being deafened by the US official protests over the current Saudi witch stuff.
Terrorism is a negotiating tool now? Great shuddering fuck. They should have shot this Bandar fellow where he stood and done that thing they did with pirates where they put their bodies in little cages and let them rot in public. Theres only a short distance between a threat and an action and clearly this idea is already in the minds of those who could do such things. It’s just unthinkable that someone would even say such a thing.
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They should have shot this Bandar fellow where he stood and done that thing they did with pirates where they put their bodies in little cages and let them rot in public.
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Yeah! We’ll show them who’s civilized!
The Saudis are the majority of the foreign insurgents in Iraq. The Saudis are financing it. We are not told of that for some reason. Saudis are getting a free ride everywhere.
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The sad thing is that they’ve already made the money and diversified. Getting off oil isn’t going to make them go away.
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They can have the money, its their political influence that’s troubling, political influence based on it being a stable government in charge of a huge percentage of the worlds most precious strategic resource.