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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts)
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 04:32 PM Sep 2016

Yes, The U.S. Should Be Able To Sue Saudi Arabia For Funding Terrorism



President Obama has promised to veto a Saudi Arabia 9/11 liability bill, preventing the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks from being able to sue the nation for funding the attacks (or even finding out IF they funded the attacks.) This is absurd, and the arguments in favor of the veto are absolute lies.
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Yes, The U.S. Should Be Able To Sue Saudi Arabia For Funding Terrorism (Original Post) GoLeft TV Sep 2016 OP
Would you care to elaborate? atreides1 Sep 2016 #1
Wouldn't this be suing a monachy? Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2016 #2

atreides1

(16,091 posts)
1. Would you care to elaborate?
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 04:50 PM
Sep 2016

"This is absurd, and the arguments in favor of the veto are absolute lies."

What if they find no evidence of the Saudi government funding the attacks?

And isn't it great that the families of 300,000 Iraqi dead can't do the same thing, for what was an illegal invasion of a sovereign nation that did not participate in the 9/11 attacks...because the US would have to waive it's own immunity!

But I understand that some people love the idea of suing the Saudi Arabian government, while closing their eyes to what the other countries have suffered at the hands of the US government and its people!

Tell you what, let's start a petition to get the US Congress to waive immunity, so that the families of the people our government has murdered can sue the United States! That seems like a fair deal to me, and we Americans are all about being fair, aren't we???

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