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I wish some people would stop screaming about flags and color choice of lights and focus on actual threats to our nation:

Hillary closed a deal to sell 29 BILLION dollars of military equipment to Saudi Arabia



ttp://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/hillary-clinton-foundation-state-arms-deals

The Saudi transaction is just one example of nations and companies that had donated to the Clinton Foundation seeing an increase in arms deals while Hillary Clinton oversaw the State Department. IBT found that between October 2010 and September 2012, State approved $165 billion in commercial arms sales to 20 nations that had donated to the foundation, plus another $151 billion worth of Pentagon-brokered arms deals to 16 of those countries—a 143 percent increase over the same time frame under the Bush Administration. The sales boosted the military power of authoritarian regimes such as Qatar, Algeria, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, which, like Saudi Arabia, had been criticized by the department for human rights abuses.

From the IBT investigation:

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton also accused some of these countries of failing to marshal a serious and sustained campaign to confront terrorism. In a December 2009 State Department cable published by Wikileaks, Clinton complained of "an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority." She declared that "Qatar's overall level of CT cooperation with the U.S. is considered the worst in the region." She said the Kuwaiti government was "less inclined to take action against Kuwait-based financiers and facilitators plotting attacks." She noted that "UAE-based donors have provided financial support to a variety of terrorist groups." All of these countries donated to the Clinton Foundation and received increased weapons export authorizations from the Clinton-run State Department...

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great, now the Repubs can't say she doesn't have business experience
also, with all those weapons maybe the Saudi's can fight their own wars from now on

win - win

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great, now the Repubs can't say she doesn't have business experience
also, with all those weapons maybe the Saudi's can fight their own wars from now on

win - win

Bowing to the Saudis and letting 15 of their people pull off an attack is, like, soooo 2001-2008. 

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Bowing to the Saudis and letting 15 of their people pull off an attack is, like, soooo 2001-2008. 

that doesn't even make any sense relative to the story posted

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This has everything to do with Iran, and nothing to do with Clinton.  The Saudi's were pissed that the US was even considering talking to Iran, so to appease them, we sold them a bunch of shit they could use "in case" of an Iranian attack.

Fuck the Saudi's and fuck Clinton.