Good day all. Ever since the 9/11 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon, there has been a suspicion that Saudi Arabia was somehow involved. This suspicion has grown after parts of a report by the 9/11 commission were classified that seemed to implicate some in the Saudi government.
Information from those 28 pages has leaked out over the years, but due to the secrecy, couldn’t be confirmed. Since the attacks, the families of those murdered have wanted to sue Saudi Arabia for damages. This has been virtually impossible due to a law passed back in the 70’s that prevents lawsuits against foreign governments.
Congress is currently looking at a bill that will reverse that law. This is set off the Saudi’s who are now threatening to sell off some $780 billion dollars in American assets, causing a massive economic disruption in the United States. This isn’t setting well with a lot of people. Here are the details from Fox News and the New York Times. First, the story from Fox News:
Saudi Arabia has reportedly told the Obama administration and congressional leaders that it will sell billions of dollars in U.S. financial assets if Congress passes a bill to make the Saudi government legally responsible for any role in the 9/11 attacks.
That threat isn’t making it less likely that Congress won’t pass the bill and send it to Der Fubar’s desk. The problem there will be getting the SCoaMF to actually sign it. Since he basically backs Islamic regimes over the United States, he will probably veto it.
The administration has tried to stop Congress from passing the legislation, a bipartisan Senate bill, since Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir last month told Washington lawmakers his country’s position, according to The New York Times.
This isn’t surprising. Obama has a history of bowing and scraping to the Saudi’s. Here are a few details from the original New York Times story:
The Obama administration has lobbied Congress to block the bill’s passage, according to administration officials and congressional aides from both parties, and the Saudi threats have been the subject of intense discussions in recent weeks between lawmakers and officials from the State Department and the Pentagon. The officials have warned senators of diplomatic and economic fallout from the legislation.
The basic response from congress on Saudi Arabia’s objections?
Most economists don’t think the Saudi’s would actually pull the trigger and do a massive sell off.
Several outside economists are skeptical that the Saudis will follow through, saying that such a sell-off would be difficult to execute and would end up crippling the kingdom’s economy. But the threat is another sign of the escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United States.
There are several reasons for the tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United States. The Saudi’s have been funding radical Islamic groups and opening Madrassas all over the place. There is also the issue of Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers. Most of them were from Saudi Arabia. And, of course, Oil.
The Saudi’s have used oil to get what they want from the United States for decades. However, thanks to Fracking and the massive new discoveries of untapped oil reserves in North America, far larger than what under Saudi Arabia, Saudi influence is waning. Basically, we don’t need them any longer and they aren’t happy about it. As you might expect, this isn’t the reasoning of the Obama Regime and the Striped Pants Brigades in the State Department.
The administration, which argues that the legislation would put Americans at legal risk overseas, has been lobbying so intently against the bill that some lawmakers and families of Sept. 11 victims are infuriated. In their view, the Obama administration has consistently sided with the kingdom and has thwarted their efforts to learn what they believe to be the truth about the role some Saudi officials played in the terrorist plot.
“It’s stunning to think that our government would back the Saudis over its own citizens,” said Mindy Kleinberg, whose husband died in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 and who is part of a group of victims’ family members pushing for the legislation.
No it isn’t. While I would love to blame this entirely on Obama, there was also the actions of his predecessor, President George Walker Bush. A lot of people have wondered why the Bush Administration moved so quickly to get the bin Laden family out of the United States, and who can forget Bush’s statement calling Islam “The Religion of Peace”? Then there is those pesky 28 pages that remain classified to this day on the potential involvement of, if not the Saudi government, then individual inside it.
Saudi officials have long denied that the kingdom had any role in the Sept. 11 plot, and the 9/11 Commission found “no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization.” But critics have noted that the commission’s narrow wording left open the possibility that less senior officials or parts of the Saudi government could have played a role. Suspicions have lingered, partly because of the conclusions of a 2002 congressional inquiry into the attacks that cited some evidence that Saudi officials living in the United States at the time had a hand in the plot.
While the King of Saudi Arabia may not have been a party to the attack, I have no doubt that individuals in his government, along with the more radical religious elements were involved. We have seen this sort of thing happen before, most recently in Pakistan.
As you may recall, Osama bin laden had been hiding in a large compound just a few miles from the Pakistani’s version of West Point. To think that they didn’t know he was there beggars belief. At the very least, the Pakistani intelligence service knew he was there and not only didn’t grab him and turn him over to us, but apparently actively aided him. This is why no one told the Pakistani’s were were going in after him when the SEAL’s blew his head off.
This bill going through congress is, in some way, a breath of fresh air. Both sides of the aisle are supporting it, and while I don’t have any numbers, if it passes both houses, it might just do so with a veto proof majority. It’s far past time that we put Saudi Arabia in it’s place. They have actively worked to undermine the United States, they have aided and abetted Radical Islamic Fundamentalist in the United States and Europe and people have had it with them, and their supporters in the United States.
We finally have the means to go after the House of Saud, and those that have aided our enemies. I’m telling congress, go ahead. Pass the bill and if required, override King Putt’s veto. Let the Saudi’s try and sell off everything. If we play this right, we can get those assets ourselves for cheap money and break Saudi Arabia.
Thatisall
~The Angry Webmaster~
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