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Randall Flagg Donating Member (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:51 AM
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Clinton to ask Saudis for help persuading China on Iran
Source: BBC

Mrs Clinton will ask the Saudis to reassure China that they will meet any shortfall in its oil needs if further UN sanctions are imposed, aides say.

She will meet King Abdullah and Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal during her first visit to the kingdom.

On Sunday, she urged Iran to reconsider its "dangerous policy decisions".

Mrs Clinton told a conference in Qatar that they were leaving the international community little choice but to impose further sanctions.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8515623.stm


Much more at link including video.
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 12:55 AM
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1. Only two countries care about Iran.
Israel and the US.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 01:35 AM
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2. Exactly. I wish they'd just cease this fixation.
Another question is why we are fighting the Taliban at all? I thought Al Quaeda was the enemy. Mission creep prevails.
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 02:14 PM
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4. Ain't that the truth.
Iran is a part of the international community, just as much as Saudi Arabia certainly.
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 10:22 AM
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3. Mrs. Clinton should mind her own business
and get off this Iran thing. She really wants a nuclear war no? :nuke:

SHUT THE _ UP HILLARY!

:dem: :kick:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 02:35 PM
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7. To be fair, she's just doing her job. n/t
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 04:44 PM
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9. Clinton is attempting to pit the Iranians against the Arabs
it is a long time historical problem. By her trying to further antagonize it is not productive.

Are you reading this Pres. Obama?

This effort will not bear the kind of fruit she thinks it might - only more hatred, war and death.

We need to stay the hell out of this damn mess!

:kick:
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blue_onyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 04:22 PM
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8. She works for the President
so your issue is with him. But I guess, based on the comments in the Hillary threads, people are just looking to do some Hillary bashing.
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 02:16 PM
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5. China does not support sanctions for the pursuit of nuclear energy.
There was a time when the US supported economic development in the third world, or at least said it did.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 02:35 PM
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6. American diplomacy. Under the aegis of objecting to an authoritarian
drift to military dictatorship, Clinton enlists those bastions of democracy, freakin' CHINA and SAUDI ARABIA.

Whoop, there it is!
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