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Trump blasts Saudi Arabia for making 'a billion a day' and funding terrorism
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump backed the commitment of ground troops if necessary to cripple the Islamic State and complained the US has always come out in support of Saudi Arabia, and while they make 'a billion a day', they are also the world's biggest funder of terrorism. Read full article
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Aug 18th, 2015 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0He has it right about the Saudi involvement in Islamic terrorism though.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0If he did become President then I feel his attitudes would moderate.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Now that the USA is independent of gas and oil it is time for us to investigate the Saudi royal family for its involvement in 9/11. Freeze their assets now and when the links are proven confiscate everything they have everywhere outside of their own country.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let them go from super rich to poverty in the blink of a second.
Trump is making life very inconvenient for the other candidates, bringing up all the subjects they don't want to talk about.
His immigration plan is detailed and popular. Its going to be hard for the other candidates to disagree with anything he put out.
@1. How so? Saudi Arabia has a number of issues. It wouldn't be right to demand that Saudi Arabia adopt western-style democracy and culture. Self-determination is still appropriate. The will of the people must be respected. BUT, it's not right for Saudi Arabia to expect “freebies”. If the UK/US are putting their assets on the line, as well as the lives of their combat troops, then Saudi needs to pay for the benefits it will receive. The UK/US can be assured of defeating, if not destroying, any opposing force. Would it be unreasonable for Saudi to pay, say, $250,000 to the families of any UK/US troops killed or wounded? Saudi has the money.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Trump is an asshole but he is right. It's about time we stop supporting the bad apples who often become our enemy down the road....or just bad ones......The Shah....Pinochet....Noreiga....Bin Laden......Hussein.....the list is endless.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 01:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The 14th amendment does need clarification. Being born in the USA to illegal visitors should not be granted citizenship.......period.
You Saxons are far superior to the rest of humanity. You have not committed war crimes in Iraq, Vietnam and Afeghanistan. You never destroyed countries to steal their oil. You never detonated two atomic bombs on civilians ... Never!
Aug 18th, 2015 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's why you have to be isolated from the outside world. And we'll isolate you! You'll be kept from living the rest of humanity!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irA8hNF98Yk
“You Saxons are far superior to the rest of humanity”. Brasileiro 18th August 2015.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All you people who think Brasilerio is a “complete idiot” are mistaken....partially.
Seem like Brasileiro #14 is on duty today. I enjoy Brasileiro #1.......the one that can barely type in our Anglo Saxon language......or frame a point. When # 1 was created the brains at their lab was not quite perfected........by 15...they were getting close but funded halted, you know........Petrobas kickbacks.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder if it actually thinks it strengthens it's point with such credible links youtube?
I was actually thinking a prefect idiot not so mush as a complete. There is still more all the Brasileiro's can do to complete it's quest for the complete idiot.
Do you think they....all 15 Brasileiro's ever traveled out of it's slums, let alone it's country or continent?
Brasshole! Bahahaha, what an idiot. Tell us Brasshole is that why your countrymen are all trying to get out and get residence in the US and UK? You just make yourself look ridiculous making Toby type comments all the time… but where has Nostril gone, or has he been transmogrified into Brasshole?
Aug 18th, 2015 - 05:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They are? How Many? I did not miss anyone here. Are you sure about that? Weird.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zps5e3MQVnU&index=25&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A
Can you imagine
Aug 18th, 2015 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0President TRUMP and Prime Minister CORBYN sitting at the same table.
better than laurel and hardy..
Briton, is the fat and lean?
Aug 18th, 2015 - 07:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0kkkkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFBJgnNgU4&index=55&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A
For you Briton!
I don't see the connection with Trump and corbyn.?
Aug 18th, 2015 - 07:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Eu não sei quem é corbyn,
Aug 18th, 2015 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0English please.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One hundred and fifty million Brazilians and we get this daft specimin in Mercopress fora? Vai embora! (Go away!)
Aug 18th, 2015 - 08:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@9 Captn Poppy
Aug 18th, 2015 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“eem like Brasileiro #14 is on duty today. I enjoy Brasileiro #1.......the one that can barely type in our Anglo Saxon language......or frame a point. When # 1 was created the brains at their lab was not quite perfected........by 15...they were getting close but funded halted, you know........Petrobas kickbacks”
I think #14 Brasso is “Nostrils”
@8 Brassiero,
You guys only WISH you could drop atomic bombs on civilians...
I suspected that when he first appeared online over a year ago. When he loses his control he speaks out of character ......meaning better than the original character. lol
Aug 19th, 2015 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, there is compelling argument for Brasiliero and TTT being run by the same character. They both need to brag they are part of a gang with a plan. Haha.
Aug 19th, 2015 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Notice that Brasso has centre stage with outrageous statements, whilst Nostrils has been quiet.
Aug 19th, 2015 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brasso is similarly out of touch with the real sentiments of the People - he chooses to support the ideology or whatever he feels irks us, regardless.
Yup, it's “Nostrils”
There is hope for Trump afterall!!!
Aug 19th, 2015 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/18/first-almost-fully-formed-human-brain-grown-in-lab-researchers-claim
However, it cannot think and has no consciousness so he sits in the same boat for a little longer. In the mean time......he'll keep talking though.
In all seriousness..........he is a hot with the GOP but his appeal is thin across the main stream populace.
Trump is 6 points behind Clinton in the polls at this stage. I think if he hangs around as long as his ego wants him to he will split the Republican vote and the Dems will stay in power. I can't imagine what the hard-right of the Republicans are thinking, unless they secretly want the Dems to stay in. It is, after all, far easier to moan and obstruct than to run the country.
Aug 19th, 2015 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's a very interesting POV Elaine. Afterall all if you all in charge of the Executive branch and both houses.........accountability comes into play. I've always found it amusing that when a GOP was President, the failures were blamed on democrats in the houses.......but that is not a two way argument. I am not a supporter of Obama, but they were blaming him in April of 2009, 3 months in office.
Aug 19th, 2015 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you listen to some posting on MP, trillions is not a lot of money on the charge card for a “war by mistake”........unless you use it to sling mud at democrats. Realistically, the fist year or two the newly elected president has little impact on debt because that spending is already earmarked.
2002 September National debt 6.2 trillion
8 years later:
2010 September National Debt 13.6 trillion
Even if you want to go from elected years to elected years
September 2001 national debt 5.8 trillion
September 2009 national debt 11.9 trillion
September 2014 national debt 17.8 trillion
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo5.htm
Plain...simple....facts. Whats that saying.....figures don't lie but liars figure.
The Republicans were at the helm when irresponsible financial policies culminated in the US crisis of 2008 - the effects resonating for years into the Obama Presidency.
Aug 19th, 2015 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Polls in America are even more skewed by their sponsors than in the UK. Does anybody really think they are going to embarrass the big corporations, the outfits that give them work in the normal course of events?
Aug 19th, 2015 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Trump has an advantage here. He is telling the vast majority of the people what they want to hear whether he knows the answers to the problem is very debatable but it seems the public don't care.
Nobody else, especially Clinton is addressing that and at the moment her e-mail fiasco has not died, even with her own supporters. Perhaps she “miss-spoke” about it once too often.
So it's going to be interesting to say the least over the next months.
Troy.....let's not forget the S&L bailout of the 80s.
Aug 20th, 2015 - 01:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Clinton is over Chris........no one here even looks at her as a candidate. Chances are she is looking at criminal charges. Any real candidate is over shadowed from shit piles.
27 poppy
Aug 20th, 2015 - 03:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Wasn't a young Geo. W Bush selling junk bonds at that time??
@26 “Trump has an advantage here. He is telling the vast majority of the people what they want to hear whether he knows the answers to the problem is very debatable but it seems the public don't care.”
Aug 20th, 2015 - 09:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Exactly why the K's are in power.
The 80 s were interesting times to say the least......for those of
Aug 20th, 2015 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0us living in the USA>
Anything care to guess the conviction rate of The Gipper's staff?
Keating 5
Rigged housing under Watts
Contra's
Supporting Aparteid
Coke smuggling for the contras and the contra scandal....And all the Central American shit. Man....and I was a registered Rep then.
The initial budget for the Iraq invasion was $60 Billion. After the invasion of Iraq, Bush's NEC Director, Lawrence Lindsay, was fired after telling the WSJ the cost of both conflicts would be between $100 & $200 Billion. His colleagues in the administration had accused him of “gross exaggeration”. In 2013 Harvard released a report concluding that the cost of both conflicts would be between $4 & $6 Trillion. “The largest portion of that bill has yet to be paid”.
Aug 20th, 2015 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There have been upwards of 5 200 deaths among military personnel, more than 50 000 wounded, including 6 475 suffering “severe penetrating brain injury” and 1 715 who have had one or more limbs amputated. And Trump wants more 'boots on the ground' to deal with ISIS. He either has a short memory, is in denial about the consequences, or is a complete cynic. Or all of the above...
Further evidence of his memory lapse, or indifference to the truth: when the CIA spent Billions supporting Afghan insurgents against the USSR, the Saudi's matched them dollar for dollar. Ironically, it was Saudi money that purchased a warehouse full of AK47's and other Soviet weapons captured by the Israeli's after the Yom Kippur war.
,,,and if Trump wants to know why his country has sent ships and planes to defend The Kingdom, all he has to is ask former President George H.W.Bush. It was his idea after all.
Trump is correct again. He's pulling away from other GOP contenders because he tells it as it is.
Aug 21st, 2015 - 03:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Saudi Arabia though is the biggest arms importer in the world and the States
Has up to 60 billion in arms sales since 2010. I don't think the military industrial
Complex Eisenhower warned the world about so long ago is going to take kindly to Trumps obstreperousness
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