Senate just overode POTUS 9/11 victims bill. eom

[a kennedy]

Last edited Wed Sep 28, 2016, 01:37 PM - Edit history (1)

[atreides1]

1. That would be the same Senate

...that intends to give the Saudi government, that's accused of participating in 9/11, 1.5 billion dollars in military aid!!!


Can't get anymore surreal then that!!!

[global1]

2. I Think This Is The Way Obama Wanted This To Play Out.....

Now he could say to the Saudi's that he vetoed it and look like a good guy in their eyes. He can say Congress overturned his veto and he has no control over that. I believe he wanted the ability for the 9/11 victims to sue - but it would have put him in a tenuous situation with the Saudi's.

I know - why should he mollycoddle them - but - as for now - he need to keep the lines of communication with the Saudi's relatively civil.

Any thoughts?

[Exilednight]

5. No. As President he understands the position the US is now

put in. If there is a case where Saudi is found guilty and refuses to pay, then the courts could order Saudi assets held in US banks to be frozen.

What happens when an American is found guilty on Saudi soil and they begin freezing US assets? Worse yet, what if Saudi Arabia cuts off US oil supply?

He understands that this has the potential to be a foreign policy disaster and make an already fractured part of the world more unstable than it already is.

[awake]

7. I am not sure we get any oil from the Saudis we are now exporters of oil

[Exilednight]

15. 1300 barrels a day come from Saudi Arabia to the US on average this year.

[global1]

9. I Didn't See Who Voted To Overturn This Veto....

Did any Dems vote to overturn?

[yeoman6987]

10. It was 97-1 so I would imagine many

[a kennedy]

12. Only one I saw was Harry Reid of Nevada......

and as you know, no consequences, he's retiring after this term.

[Xolodno]

11. That and...

...makes it tougher on any normalization of ties with Iran. Granted that's not going to happen in the near term.

But the main reason we tolerate the Saudi's bullshit is because we had our "puppet" the Shah go a bridge too far and effectively destroy any alternative we had in the Mid-East.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. Obligatory Grammar Nazi post: "road" is not the same as "rode". n/t

[snooper2]

13. Well, there is another type of over road

but it really didn't make sense in context of the OP

[Pakid]

4. Piss off the Saudis enough

and they could pull the plug on oil. Yes our greedy oil companies would love it but the harm it would do to most American would not be pretty. Gas going to lets say $5.00 a gal would put the brakes on our nation right now. I wonder if that is part of the Republicans plan wreck the economy to help big oil in the short term plus us as an excuses to gut program that help us and point the finger at our side for doing the damaged. Which the MSM I'm sure will go along with.

[awake]

8. It is a world market if the Saudis sell their oil to someone else then the other supplier would..

... have more oil to sell there is a oil glut right now in the world market

[Exilednight]

16. There is only a glut because Saudi Arabia is overproducing to

keep prices artificially low to hurt Iran.

[a kennedy]

14. Correction.....OVERODE.

Thank you. Sorry.

[pinboy3niner]

17. Correction...it has 2 'r's...overrode

Thank you. Sorry.