What price Australia, Donald?

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  1. Bush Lawyer

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    I know well of that but I was never aware it was a solid gold binding agreement.
     
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    So. You would prefer that the Saudi's buy Russian or Chinese military products? That does not sound very smart to me.
     
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    So, would you turn off the flow of oil to Australia over a journalist?

    80% of Australia's oil comes from the Middle East.

    So what price would you be willing to pay?
     
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    What do you think they will give?
     
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    Do not forget the duck sauce.....
     
  6. Bush Lawyer

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    I'd prefer that no-one arm them. But, Trump does ($B110 worth) even though he knows they are ********s whose people flew some big planes into some big American buildings and cost a life or two. Trump deals with any Devil for a dollar.
     
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    The Saudi's will buy arms. It is only a matter of where they will buy them. Again, would you prefer they buy them from the Russians or Chinese?
     
  8. Bush Lawyer

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    Well, the two Bushes had that within their grasp and let it go.
     
  9. Bush Lawyer

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    No skin off my nose. Same outcome. Saudi gets armed.
     
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    The two Bushes had Saudi Arabia within their grasp? When was that?

    But let's try the question again.

    Are you willing to have 80% of the oil Australia needs restricted because of this journalist?
     
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    Since you have no dog in this fight, why are you protesting? It is a cruel world and sometimes you have to choose between bad and worse. You hold your nose and choose the least bad.
     
  12. Bush Lawyer

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    In a word....yes. What you ignore is what you are. We'll buy other oil. There is more than Saudi schit. If necessary, we coulg go full nuclear. After all, we have lots of urnamium.
     
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    Because Trump is setting the price at which he will sell out. What price Australia?
     
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    Urnamium?

    And what am I?

    Buy other oil? From?

    I think you might want to check what you are drinking, there might be too much urnamium in it.
     
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    It would be stupid not to sell the Saudi's arms.
    I wonder how many decades it will take for that change. Going to be a lot of walking in the meantime.
     
  16. Bush Lawyer

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    Are you telling me that the oil is ONLY in Saudi Arabia?
     
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    Learn something about this group called OPEC and then we can discuss.
     
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    Bush Lawyer sneers at a 110 billion dollar arms deal with the Saudis but he ignores various important points

    1) That 110 billion dollar arms deal translates to as many as 500,000 jobs in the United States. Thats kind of a big deal.
    2) The more U.S. arms a nation like Saudi Arabia uses, the more influence on its military the U.S. has. Which is undoubtedly a good thing given that the military in many of these countries is one of the few moderating influences.
     
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    Remember the "Brisbane line"?
    Nah he just invoked a satanic ritual with them

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    It is also more than a big deal that the USA has been an arms dealer to many nations
     
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    Why? Because it has uncovered inconvenient truths?
     
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    Including and continuing to be, Australia.
     
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    Because although many of these nations have laws prohibiting dragnet surveillance of their citizens, there's nothing saying they cant share surveillance with everyone else in the agreement, bypassing the spirit of the law.

    Government should not have this sort of power. We should secure our liberties as a first priority.
     
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    Did you have a problem when Obama dealt with them?
     
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    Who did Trump "sell out".
     

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