Yeah, so the Saudi's can right fuck off!

[Actor]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/20/politics/obama-saudi-arabia-tensions/

(CNN)President Barack Obama received a chilly reception from Saudi Arabia's leaders as he landed in Riyadh Wednesday, a clear sign of the cooling relations between once-close allies amid regional upheaval and dropping oil prices.

When Obama touched down in Riyadh shortly after 1 p.m. local time, there were no kisses with the kingdom's ruler as President George W. Bush once exchanged. The Saudi government dispatched the governor of Riyadh rather than a senior-level royal to shake Obama's hand, a departure from the scene at the airport earlier in the day when King Salman was shown on state television greeting the leaders of other Gulf nations on the tarmac.

The non liberal in me has something the Saudi's can suck.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Ouch,you think?

Like one economist said,let them sell their US assets,the money is not going back to the Saudi's,it will be held in trust for the victims of 9/11.

[KamaAina]

2. Still carrying a torch for Dumbya, I see.

[COLGATE4]

4. Nobody kisses like Dumbya kisses. nt

[spanone]

11. imagine Obama instead of george in these pictures....

they would have impeached him for that alone.

[onecaliberal]

3. Agree, terrorist assholes.

[thereismore]

5. They would welcome Hillary just fine. She is their arms connection. Obama stands in the way. How

dare he make a deal with Iran?! I think those are the last vestiges of sane foreign policy we are going to see for a long time, if Clinton
gets to be president.

[sofa king]

6. There was a lot going on there.

But we can already see how it went. The two things that suddenly changed:

* Russia is suddenly relocating artillery in Syria, rather than pulling it out.

* The White House has warned that it will veto the lawsuit bill which would allow 9/11 families to sue the Saudis.


So what has been happening for the past two years is Saudi Arabia has been overproducing oil, for several reasons. One is that they're trying to kill off the solar power and fracking industries. Another is that they're trying to force the Russians out of Syria by lowering the price of oil so that it's not profitable for the Russians to sell.

A short while back the Russians were on the verge of declaring victory and leaving Syria. As soon as that happened, the Saudis called an unscheduled meeting of OPEC to discuss a production freeze, which raised the price of gasoline in America overnight.

And as soon as that happened, the Obama Administration started considering whether or not to release classified documents revealing the Saudi Arabian role in 9/11.

Then the President rolled over there and told them something, we know not what, which resulted in the two major changes above.

So my guess is that President Obama told the Saudis that if they support the Republican Party by freezing oil production and destabilizing the US economy in an election year, he will forever destroy our friendly-on-the-surface relationship by throwing them and the Republicans under the bus for 9/11.

The Saudis immediately relented, the Russians got pissed and decided to stay in Syria, and now the White House is signalling that they won't sign off on a Saudi lawsuit bill bouncing in Congress, indicating that we made a deal rather than won an open threat.

We will see within a week that the emergency OPEC meeting was cancelled or comes to nothing, and that Saudi production will remain stable throughout the summer. The American economy will continue to improve, unemployment will continue to drop, and the Republicans won't have the election-year recession they need to get close enough to steal it.

And thus the Republicans will lose the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court for their role in protecting the real perpetrators behind the 9/11 attacks, all thanks to a semi-cordial visit to Saudi Arabia by President Obama.

The only thing lacking is justice.

[Actor]

7. Interesting, kinda makes you wish we didn't ever need a drop of oil again.

[sofa king]

8. That's what scares the Saudis even more than 9/11

[Actor]

9. Koch Bros and Saudi Royal Family are quite the pair.

[NV Whino]

10. That is the most apt interpretation I've read.