Bernie Sanders: One of the wealthiest families in the world...

[Playinghardball]

[Initech]

1. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if Saudi Arabia is funding Isis.

We got to follow the paper trail here.

But once again, Bernie is definitely right.

[Cleita]

3. Rich Saudis are. It's pretty much agreed upon.

I think our gov. could put pressure on the Saudi Gov. to put pressure on those donors to stop it. We can threaten to embargo their oil exports to us if they don't. If ISIS funding dries up, it will pretty much be the end of them.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

9. Sad Truth

The friends of the BFEE are not our friends.

[madokie]

28. We could do without their oil

The oily boys would have a problem with that though

[hifiguy]

13. Wealthy loonies from Saudi Arabia and Dubai

are behind IS, according to a highly credible link posted here on DU in the last week. What a surprise.

[harun]

23. That's the elephant in the room.

[99th_Monkey]

2. The Saudi's could start by cutting of their funding of ISIS.

Just saying.

I think that was between Bernies words.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. shine the light of day on them. n/t

[B Calm]

5. Wasn't fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 terrorists from Saudi Arabia?

[lark]

6. Yes, I believe that's the #.

There's also the fact that the Saudis royalty were funding 2 of the 9/11 terrorists. Another fact is prior to 9/11 they complained to Shrub about the no-fly list containing a lot of Saudi Arabian citizens names and Shrub exempted ALL Saudi Arabian citizens from being stopped and several of the terrorists got into the country this way even though they were on the watch list.

I'm sure they are funding ISIS and totally agree with Bernie that they should be the ones with "boots on the ground", not us.

[raisedcatholicvet]

7. 100% Tax on oil.

But they have all that oil! Could we could survive without them?Yes Can they survive without us?No

[kairos12]

10. Never mind escorting the Bin Ladens out of the country post

9/11.

[billhicks76]

11. Bush=Treason

If a Democrat did that they would would call for prison or worse.

[lark]

31. Exactly!

He and Cheney should have gone to prison for this and for torturing prisoners.

[JonLP24]

18. A large number of ISIS foreign fighters come from Saudi Arabia

they are #2 behind Tunisians and Qatar was quick to get financially involved in Tunisia setting up charities which charity fronts is an old trick from the Bosnian wars to provide funding for Al-Qaeda.

[Art_from_Ark]

20. 15 of the 19 purported terrorists were supposedly from Saudi Arabia

The BBC had an article a couple of weeks after the attack which stated that several of those hijacking suspects were still alive.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm

[B Calm]

25. Must be related to the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania.

[Art_from_Ark]

26. I've always had my doubts about that story

Witnesses said they heard a second plane chasing after the United flight, which was the supposedly the only flight where the passengers had mounted an attempted to take back control of the plane from the hijackers. And then Cheney said he would have ordered a shoot-down of the plane *if he had been in control*. Just who was in control? It certainly wasn't bu$h, who was too engrossed in a story about a pet goat to care about what was happening.

[hopemountain]

8. bernie sure has the smarts...

and, yes, definitely reading between the lines. bernie knows how to set up the dominoes. encouraging our people to put pressure on our government to put pressure on the saudis to put pressure on the donors...just may work.

[RationalMan]

12. Saudi Arabia funded the 9-11 terrorists and are funding ISIS........

The "royal' Saud family are terrorists and should be the targets of U.S. drones but they aren't because they are co-terrorists with the U.S. government.

I am reading, with interest, the book called "The Brothers" that covers the years of the Dulles brothers; one at State and the other at the CIA and how their perverted minds worked in "protecting" America.

They were terrorists then and should be treated accordingly. We need to change the name of Dulles International to something like Che Rivera Airport.

[panader0]

14. Who is Che Rivera?

[Scootaloo]

15. I would guess an auto-corrected version of a misspelled "Che Guevara" n/t

[panader0]

19. I thought it might have been Geraldo's brother.

Just kidding RationalMan. And I agree about the Dulles gang. Yeah Scootaloo, I knew what he meant, I was just "welcoming" him to DU.

[ND-Dem]

22. chita rivera's brother.

[Scootaloo]

16. Now why would Saudi Arabia want to fight Daesh?

How else will they topple the Shia states of Syria and Iraq?

[JonLP24]

17. Saudi Arabia is already too involved

Trust me you don't want them involved and with the beheadings, hisbah, & human rights violations what is the difference? Read about the 1st Saudi State, Egypt-Wahabbi war, & Wahabbism in general -- they are the original ISIS.

They may have the 4th largest military defense budget but what exactly are they spending it on? Also the use & abuse migrant labor, they aren't good guys here.

On edit -- If US took the lead, migrant workers would be doing all the work. Trust me, I was a US troop deployed, migrant labor human trafficking & slave labor by KBR, Halliburton, etc was par for the course. Contractors in general had far more responsibilities including using Third-Country Nationals to guard Baghdad International Airport with a rifle & a bulletproof vest.

[nomorenomore08]

24. Exactly. There are no good guys, just bad guys and *really* bad guys.

The Saudis and ISIS, of course, both fall into the latter category.

[sabrina 1]

21. That might be a good idea. But then, there are those who think that the Saudis financed ISIS.

Who knows, they are all despicable human beings but Bernie is right, sending American troops to die in Iraq again, should not even be a consideration.

[Enthusiast]

27. Go, Bernie!

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[Tuesday Afternoon]

29. Shared this one on FB. I want NAME RECOGNITION of BERNIE on FaceBook. Yes, I do.

[NewJeffCT]

30. damn - fourth largest military budget for a country of 29 million or so?

US, China, Russia...I would assume are 1, 2 and 3.

so, higher than the UK, France, Israel, Germany, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Mexico, Canada, etc?