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New Bill Attempts To Ban Selling Weapons To Terrorists
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5:42Now PlayingLegislation has been introduced that would limit the amount of weapons and military equipment the United States can sell to Saudi Arabia, and the legislation specifically cites the massive human rights abuses that the country has engaged in as a reason for the US to finally pull support from the country. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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Legislation has been introduced that would limit the amount of weapons and military equipment the United States can sell to Saudi Arabia. And the legislation specifically cites massive human rights abuses that the country's been engaging in for so long. And we just seem to ignore it. I don't know who in the hell has got it in their head that these are our friends. I have no idea. They're not our friends, are they?
No, absolutely not. And look, it's not only the human rights abuses, which we've covered extensively. It's not only the human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia, it's also the abuses that they're carrying out in Yemen and all over the Middle East. And they're doing it with our weapons, with our bullets, with our jets and missiles. We are supplying the ammunition for Saudi Arabia to kill their own people and the people in the neighboring countries. That's what folks have to understand here. And think of it this way too. Remember earlier this year, maybe it was last year, everything runs together at this point. But when Biden went to Saudi Arabia and said, oh my God, gas prices are insane. Saudi Arabia.
Please help us.
We've given you so many weapons, everything you've ever wanted, could you just help us? And they said, no.
No.
No, we're gonna make prices a little higher, actually.
That was after Biden, after he said, well, Biden called him the pariah. Remember he was running for.
Yeah. He said he was gonna make him a pariah.
He says, President Biden campaigned in 2020, making Saudi Arabia a pariah. Okay. This is Ken Klippenstein with Intercept, who I think is brilliant.
Yeah, he's wonderful.
I mean, he's really a great reporter. And then that he only focuses though, when he's calling him a pariah, and he says, there's very little social redeeming value in the present government. This is Joe Biden, very little social redeeming value. Then he turns around within a matter of months and gives them almost $600 million worth of weapons to be used any way they want to use them. Even though he's also told, oh, by the way, these weapons are, we're finding these weapons in the hands of terrorists. How's that happening, right?
Yeah. And that, by the way, was another huge report from a couple years ago that went largely under the radar that Saudi Arabia was selling weapons to terrorists. Those terrorists were then using those weapons to kill American citizens, to kill US soldiers, to kill US contractors. We are being killed across the globe by our own weapons, because Saudi Arabia, once we sell it, there's no regulations, there's no limitations. Here is our best of the best. You do whatever you want. And then when we ask you for a favor and you say, no, we'll shrug our shoulders and we'll sell you some more.
We always look the other way. I remember the story with the Philippine, the two Filipino women that were held slaves. They were actually, this piggish looking Saudi of the royal family. I mean, absolutely hoggish, piggish looking guy. He's holding them slaves in his house. Okay. Now there's laws against that. But instead of that, instead of us charging him, well, no, he has immunity. He has diplomatic immunity. So we let him go. Just like after 9/11. What's the first thing we do? We take all the Saudi Royal family and we fly them out of the country. Why did we do that? Why? Because at that point, everybody's talking, this is Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. No, it wasn't. It was Saudi Arabia. And this history just doesn't end. When Biden says that they are pariah, he was right.
And it's almost like he's changed his mind because corporate America's told him.
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