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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
13. Too late for that now......
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 01:22 AM
Mar 2015

...especially after we've already sold them the bombs and the planes to drop them from. And then there's the inevitable re-orders. We don't want to lose out on that, now do we? And as the Attorney General has told us, it's hard to enforce the law when you know you could end up damaging the economy by doing so.

- Bringing democracy to the people of Yemen will take gut$, drone$, plane$, mi$$ile$, gun$ and bomb$. Everybody know$ that........



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Saudi Arabia Begins Air Campaign in Yemen [View all] charlie and algernon Mar 2015 OP
Saudi use of American supplied weapons in an offensive non-consensual capacity may be a violation of the arms supply agreement. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #1
I'm guessing this is very, very consensual nt tishaLA Mar 2015 #2
It's never stopped the Israelis. n/t Mr.Bill Mar 2015 #3
I'm not sure bombing anyone will stop a civil war. Is there an example in history where bloomington-lib Mar 2015 #4
Ex-Yugoslavia. (nt) jeff47 Mar 2015 #5
In recent history, there most certainly was: freshwest Mar 2015 #17
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Larry Engels Mar 2015 #24
Shock and Allah! El Supremo Mar 2015 #6
This is a very real conflict between Yemenis. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #11
Too late for that now...... DeSwiss Mar 2015 #13
"Saudi leads ten-nation Sunni coalition in bombing Yemen's Shia rebels" - Telegraph Larry Engels Mar 2015 #25
WaPo story eridani Mar 2015 #7
At least the Saudis waited to launch war by proxy with Persian Iran until after America evacuated diplomatic personnel. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #8
This is a fine mess. TwilightGardener Mar 2015 #9
If I am not mistaken Lawrence O just reported that we are supporting them with bombing. How jwirr Mar 2015 #10
All. Of. Them. Somehow. n/t DeSwiss Mar 2015 #14
It will fly under the radar of most people in the US Elmer S. E. Dump Mar 2015 #20
Even when the body bags were coming home a lot of Ameicans do not care as long as it is not jwirr Mar 2015 #21
Very sad, but true. Some people are just fucked in the head. Elmer S. E. Dump Mar 2015 #22
Whoever we have treaties with, I guess. And we're not at war, we just sold them that stuff. freshwest Mar 2015 #18
Saudi Arabia is contributing 100 warplanes and 150,000 soldiers to the military operation in Yemen jakeXT Mar 2015 #12
When all else fails....... DeSwiss Mar 2015 #15
This is getting really messy over there. n/t BojackFan Mar 2015 #16
Oil prices rise 6% as Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen rebels (BBC) inanna Mar 2015 #19
Well that tears it...... DeSwiss Mar 2015 #23
Yemen's Hadi arrives in Saudi capital, after fleeing Aden Bosonic Mar 2015 #26
Saudi-led coalition launches fresh strikes in Yemen: local officials Bosonic Mar 2015 #27
so saudi arabia did not attach al queda or isis but the houthi's samsingh Mar 2015 #28
Yep. n/t Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #30
almost like an implicit support of isis and al queda samsingh Mar 2015 #32
Yemen rebel chief slams 'unjustified' Saudi intervention Bosonic Mar 2015 #29
eh, it's another one of them Shia/Sunni things Baclava Mar 2015 #31
why does the US support this or that armed-gang over another? ...nt quadrature Mar 2015 #33
White House concerned about 'Iranian activities' in Yemen Bosonic Mar 2015 #34
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