Huckabee: America Enslaved to Saudi Oil
November 25th, 2007 . by TexasFredWASHINGTON (AP) – 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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Huckabee: America Enslaved to Saudi Oil
I am not, nor have I ever been a fan of Mike Huckabee, but I have got to say, he hit this one out of the park, we are making the Saudis richer by the second and in spite of what the Bumbler in Chief says, Saudi Arabia is NOT our friend, not in ANY way, all they want is our money…
A few months ago Bush welcomed the head of Saudi Arabia to his home in Crawford, TX., he hugged him, kissed his cheeks, held his hand, did everything except kiss the SOB on the mouth, it was disgusting, and I pretty much lost what little respect for Bush that I had left, as did several other bloggers, including American & Proud, Basti Says, Long Live the Republic and The Ranando Report just to name a few of the more vocal bloggers…
We were all soundly blasted by the Bush Bot sites because we dared to criticize the Bumbler in Chief, but you know, when you welcome the people that caused 9-11, that supported the attackers of 9-11 and financed the attackers of 9-11 I have to question your sanity, and Bush welcomed the Saudis like long lost brothers and declared them to be our allies, and that my friends is pure bullshit…
Huckabee may not be a good choice as POTUS, I know too little about the man to say anything about him in that regard, good or bad, but on this Saudi oil subject, he just came off looking like a genius…
If you read the full article you’ll understand this too, the U.N. condemns the use of Tasers as being torture, but do they DO anything about Saudi Arabia beating people to death or beheading them??
Let’s talk REAL torture and hypocrisy, U.N. and Saudi hypocrisy, and once again, kudos to Huckabee for this stance…
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I’m not behind any candidate 100% at this early time but this is the kind of stuff I want to hear a candidate say.
He’s been all over the airwaves lately and I like what I’m hearing. Is he the one? I don’t know but at least he’s taking a stand I like.
All I know right now is that we can not, let me repeat, can not let Clinton or Obama get in.
First: he IS correct. This IS a petroleum-based economy — one in which we are held HOSTAGE by our OWN Eco-Nazis, though we have our OWN resources available on CONUS and just off our shores, which we are FORBIDDEN by these assholes to tap.
Second: TAKE away the Taser, I think that’s great. That’s one less thing I have to think about using from my belt, and I can jump from the baton to my handgun without having to worry about what’s in between on the force continuum. I say: you bet. TAKE the Taser!
BZ
I like Huckabee so far, I don’t know enough about him but this statement is certainly a winner in my book and he’s dead on.
F-k the U.N. too, if they had it their way we’d fight this war on terror with super soakers and replace the taser with one of those hand held, battery operated, bubble makers…
I agree – Huckabee got this one right – however, as a resident of Arkansas, I have seen what his policies regarding illegal aliens (we are pretty much a sanctuary state) and his tax increases will do to know I won’t vote for him. I don’t think we can stand another president from Hope.
And – Gunz… I know a few guys who had some pretty mean SuperSoakers in Iraq……
LOL, that I have no doubt. Sounds like fun too…
Ahhh, to be free of the Oil Requirement. That’s the key…and not just Saudi oil, but Chavez oil, Iraqi oil, Dubain oil, where ever it comes from.
But, But, we have to have it. Our entire economy is built on the capitalist model of required, sustained growth…not just sitting still, or conserving, but growth. Without growth, we start to lose some of the thin veneer of civilization that capitalism built. Growth is dependent on the free-flow of Oil at market prices.
Sure, we have to open up the reserves and the coastlines, but we also have to work on removing oil from sitting on top of the list in our economic structure. If we don’t, then oil price increases alone are going to knock us into a depression. If a major conflict shuts down the flow of crude from the Middle East (nukes, Iran, Israel) then we’re in a financial crisis unlike any this country has ever seen.
Given our current population and the state of our National Unity (!), I would say that missing a few meals will send many of the current crop of Americans into some discord. Miss meals? HA! Many can’t miss cable TV without panic attacks…
Were never going to be free of the need for oil, at least not in our lifetimes. Unless we want to go back to living like Fred Flintstone or our scientists quickly come up with a way we can live like George Jetson, were going to need oil.
We had our chance to get to the oil in the ANWR and Gulf of Mexico but the Republicans didn’t have the balls to do what it takes. Now with Democrats in control of congress, that oil will be sit there, undeveloped, for generations to come. As long as the American People are willing to open their wallets for foreign oil, the Eco-Nazi’s will get their way.
Serr8d (nice nom-de-plume!): I would concur, we should move away from oil. Not being an energy specialist I’m not sure I know what that might be or what direction to go — it just seems to me that the Left dislikes ANY form of energy production:
1. No nukes. Can’t use the European model though it works wonderfully there; damned dangerous!
2. No solar. Takes up too much land and litters the landscape with acres of metal and glass;
3. No more refineries. You know why;
4. No drilling. Anywhere. For any reason;
5. No wind-powered. Eyesores, limiting, not enough wind due to global warming, don’t belong on the tops of our pristine hills and mountains;
6. No electrical propulsion, see #1 and #2;
7. No ethanol; inefficient and takes too much land for corn;
8. No propane-fired plants; see #3 & #4;
9. No hydrogen; drips water and that releases C02;
10. No fusion; see #1;
Maybe we should simply go back to pedal cars, horses and candles? Yeah, that’s the ticket!
BZ