Huckabee: America enslaved to Saudi oil

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Yahoo News

Consumers are financing both sides in the war on terror because of the actions of U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Sunday.

The former Arkansas governor made the comments following what he suggested was a muted response by the Bush administration to a Saudi court's sentence of six months in jail and 200 lashes for a woman who was gang raped.

"The United States has been far too involved in sort of looking the other way, not only at the atrocities of human rights and violation of women," Huckabee said on CNN's "Late Edition."

"Every time we put our credit card in the gas pump, we're paying so that the Saudis get rich — filthy, obscenely rich, and that money then ends up going to funding madrassas," schools "that train the terrorists," said Huckabee. "America has allowed itself to become enslaved to Saudi oil. It's absurd. It's embarrassing."

Huckabee said "I would make the United States energy independent within 10 years and tell the Saudis they can keep their oil just like they can keep their sand, that we won't need either one of them."



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Good for Huckabee - nice to hear a Repub voice this. Now he needs to smack the Republican party for ignoring this for the last several decades and for embracing the Saudis at every turn.

[Mythsaje]

1. Even a broken clock is right two times a day...

Glad he brought it up, though. HIS party is most responsible for it, though.

[msongs]

2. now if he would just talk like this about the baptist convention we'd be getting somewhere nt

[Mojambo]

3. That would make Cheney and Bush plantation bosses. n/t

[yurbud]

4. Dems need to be out in front on this issue--not just hinting at it, but bolder than Huckabee

[humbled_opinion]

5. Wow Repukes finally starting to get what the Democrats have been saying for

Decades.... What a crock.... Hypocrisy at its finest here.

[bigworld]

7. Mainstream Dems haven't done enough about this either

... I don't recall the Clinton administration doing much about this when they were in power. There's a lot of blame to be spread around.

[RamboLiberal]

11. Yeah but Clinton had to live with Repukes in majority for 6

of his 8 years in office. Hard to take an initiative when you have that bunch of deniers in charge. Then you have Dems like Dingell who catered to the American automakers and allowed them to basically commit suicide by fighting mileage standards.

[barb162]

14. Not many recent presidents have been demanding that

auto standards be revised. There could have been suggestions to put huge taxes on SUVs and other guzzlers to discourage their use, etc.

[Kolesar]

12. He was too afraid of the editorial page of Road & Track Magazine...

:sarcasm:

[bluestateguy]

6. Huckabee is speaking the truth on this issue. That's why his campaign is not raising any real money.

I take him at his word when he says he's a Main Street conservative, but you need Wall Street money to win elections.

[Alexander]

8. A Romney/Huckabee ticket would scare the bejesus out of me.

And don't think for a minute the two of them are above running on the same ticket.

[gateley]

10. Good point - I think that ticket might pack a wallop. It ain't over. nt

[Recursion]

13. I think a winning GOP ticket has to have Huckabee on it

Everybody else has lost the RR's trust at this point. Though my reading of the Republican mind is to expect a gender/race spoiler if we nominate Clinton or Obama. Liddy Dole on the one hand, somebody besides Alan Keyes on the other.

[Solar_Power]

15. Sad, but true.

[BornagainDUer]

31. Just like Dennis Kucinich?

:eyes:

You people are either dense or you are closet repukes.

[AlertLurker]

9. Saw him on CNN this morning. Watched only until...

...he suggested that the Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories should find another "homeland," somewhere else.

What a friggin' IMBECILE!


:puke:

[Chulanowa]

24. How about Arkansas?

[TheFarseer]

16. yes BUT, what is his point?

too many Republicans say the same thing about Saudi oil and then declare that we have to drill in ANWR and off our coasts and totally disregard the need for conservation. I don't know if Huckabee is one of those folks or not, just cautioning DUers to not assume a candidate has the same views as them when they may or may not.

[onehandle]

17. Every time we put our credit card in the gas pump, we pay the 9/11 financiers.

We invaded the wrong damn country.

[Demeter]

18. The Only Thing Is, I'm Not Sure We Get That Much Oil From Sauds

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbbl_m.htm

If you visit this government link, you will see that less than 10% of our oil imports are from Saudi Arabia.

[Orsino]

19. So only the Saudis are getting obscenely rich from our gas habit?

Riiiight, Huck. Way to misdirect there.

Our gas money also goes to enrich people like our current Prez and Veep, and helped send them to schools that train corporate fascists.

[ryanmuegge]

20. And I'm sure, like all Republicans, he plans to exacerbate the situation if elected

So what.

[yurbud]

21. yep, but if any pol says this, it's noteworthy

simply because they told the truth even if it was for cynical short term gain.

[Lorien]

22. He doesn't say HOW we would become energy independant though

is he like so many repugs, who seem to believe that if we just set up enough oil derricks in each and every state we'll have all that we need? Or would he be sensible and invest in renewables?

[progressoid]

23. Woohoo! I'm voting for Huckabee and Ron Paul

[noonwitch]

25. I won't vote for him, but Huckabee does seem like a repub with ethics

I've seen him interviewed on liberal talk shows. He seems like a genuinely nice guy.

[BornagainDUer]

26. America is enslaved to Christo-fascists shitheads (you included fuckwad)

out for their own profits who won't let us get a sane energy policy going.

Yer just another dumbfuck repuke trying to get a political footing with people who don't know, never did know, and and never will know a fucking thing about anything except the number of steps at their local church.

You motherfuckers destroyed the world, that's what I know.

[Heywood J]

27. "And I plan to do absolutely nothing about it..."

"The Saudis are our friends. Join us. Braaaaains..."

[David Zephyr]

28. What an idiot! Huckabee apparently forgot that the House of Saud owns the House of Bush.

Put a fork in Mr. Huckabee's political career. He's done.

[Renew Deal]

29. Other than the madrassa comment, he's corrent.

Madrassa just means school.

[BornagainDUer]

30. Well why doesn't somebody start a Huckabee appreciation thread.

The mods should shut this topic down.

[robertpaulsen]

32. Narrow-minded moran. America is enslaved to oil PERIOD.

"I would make the United States energy independent within 10 years".

YEAH! Vote for President Pollyanna!

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[JerseygirlCT]

33. Good for him on that

Too bad he's a nutjob.