Huck: “Tell The Saudis They Can Keep Their Oil Just Like They Can Keep Their Sand”
WASHINGTON - 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.”
Responding to the gang rape case in Saudi Arabia, the State Department expressed astonishment about the sentence of the Saudi court against the rape victim.
The woman was convicted of being in the car of a man who was not a relative. The seven men convicted of raping her were given prison sentences of two years to nine years.
Under Saudi Arabia’s strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law, women are not allowed in public in the company of men other than relatives.
The woman has said the 2006 attack occurred as she tried to retrieve her picture from a male friend. While in the car with the friend, two men climbed into the vehicle and drove to a secluded area. She said she was raped by seven men, three of whom also attacked her friend.
The woman initially had been sentenced to 90 lashes after she was convicted of violating rigid laws on the segregation of the sexes. The Saudi court said the woman’s punishment was increased because of what the court said was her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that “when you look at the crime and the fact that now the victim is punished, I think that causes a fair degree of surprise and astonishment. But it is within the power of the Saudi government to take a look at the verdict and change it.”
Last Tuesday, the same day as McCormack’s comments, President Bush telephoned Saudi King Abdullah, trying to get Saudi Arabia to co- sponsor this week’s U.S.-organized conference aimed at working toward a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. On Friday, Abdullah agreed to send its foreign minister to the conference.
(AP)
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>> I would make the United States energy independent within 10 years
I just love those promises that are to be achieved so far into the future that a four year or an eight president doesn’t have to be around to answer for unfulfilled promises.
November 25th, 2007 at 2:40 pmThe last time drilling in ANWR came up, the donks said it would take five years to get the oil flowing. That was 2003. These people must take the rest of us for fools, since they keep getting away with it.
November 25th, 2007 at 2:55 pmSaudi oil is providing money to the irhabis to continue their war of agression against the West and innocent Muslim citizens.
Getting off of Saudi oil is doable. But only if we make that goal a national priority by saying “Fuck you” to Congress, the tree huggers, and the red tape.
We have 1/3 of the world coal reserves. Whay aren’t we extracting and distilling oil from that coal?
We make 53 different blends of oil for US cities. Why not make one for all. Some of these blends take an extraordinary amount of heating and cause refinery equipment to break down frequently. One blend would keep our refinery capacity up to a high rate of availablility instead of relying on Japan or Saudi to refine our oil for us.
Mixing one blend of oil rather than 53 would bring the price of oil down. And how bout a tax holiday or two from Fed and State oil taxes? In some states that would be a savings of 60 cents per gal at the pump.
Green power is available from solar, wind, water, old closed down garbage dumps (methane) and even farm waste.
The most green friendly power is nuclear power. And our nuclear power facilities are far safer than any third or second world plant is.
The only thing holding us back from becomming energy independent is ourselves, the tree huggers and our useless Congress.
Huck is on to something.
November 25th, 2007 at 3:37 pmHuck sounds like a democrat (at least when they are not in power). problem is we will continue to be in bed with dictators until we do as dan says and use our own resources. but with the rise in environmentalism and the other ‘mentalism’ we are left with a large group of americans who will not give into reason. if we have our own rsources we likely wont be warring in the middle east which makes the peacniks happy but then we might be polluting the planet which makes the enviro’s mental.
I think we are in a rodney king moment:”cant we all just get along” , better yet cant we all compromise : I say lets go to dingy harry and say we will pull out of iraq if we can exile al gore to saudi arabia or iran to pitch his message, while we start drilling in anwr, in the gulf of mexico, and begin using our massive deposits of coal.
If the libs are so concerned about people they ought to stop insisting on keepingo ur land and air pristine while allowing us to drill in foreign lands with corrupt governments that allow for their lands to be polluted , like in nigeria, the middle east etc. we at least can mange the drilling in sensitive areas to limit environmental damages. “No blood for oil” is a great slogan considering we could be getting that oil within our country. perhaps “no blood for ANWR” might be more appropriate.
November 25th, 2007 at 4:23 pmRight on Dan (the infidle)….. You are on the money and the more I hear and see of Huckabee the more I like him.
November 25th, 2007 at 4:48 pmWireless electricity … and by no means whatsoever fiction
http://www.braincourse.com/wirelessa.html
November 25th, 2007 at 5:11 pm“the State Department expressed astonishment …”
Now there’s an understatement. State is full of fools..
November 25th, 2007 at 5:48 pm““Fuck you” to Congress, the tree huggers, and the red tape.”
November 25th, 2007 at 10:10 pmI like the sound of that; and those that believe that we are “spilling blood for oil” are often the same goddam hippies that force us to use that double-edged sword called OPEC! We must become energy self-sufficient, and big oil can do it with some impressive ecological soundness (they know that spills are bad PR).
“but with the rise in environmentalism and the other ‘mentalism’ we are left with a large group of americans who will not give into reason.”
Easier said than done, but maybe we should ignore the fuckers. They don’t seem to have any idea on how to preserve a country anyway.
By the way, these are the same people that say that Bush has done a terrible job for the economy. So they bash Bush for mismanaging the economy, yet prevent us from doing anything that may… you know… improve the economy? All for the sake of some imaginary global warming problem that is supposedly man-made.
Damn greenies.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:35 pmThe CrazyZoal recommends switching to natural gas, from Qatar.
November 26th, 2007 at 2:39 amAstonishment? Whoever at State said that is a damn liar.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:46 amSee there is more common sense from the people who post here than the whole damn government combined. Its a shame the government rarely listens to its own people, they could learn alot
November 26th, 2007 at 6:28 amcheck hucks record during office, he’s a democrat
November 26th, 2007 at 7:20 am