Moderate Saudis gun down Radical Democratic Protesters

Sadly, after the downfall of the Tunisian and Egyptian governments, other oppressive rulers have become afraid of protests and take drastic measures to keep their power. Like what's happening in Libya and Bahrain.

President Bravo would do what?

If people get angry enough, it doesn't really matter what the governments try.
At a certain point your only option is mass slaughter of your own population...which even a dictator has to recognize as pointless (although that's not to say they won't do it anyways, Hitler left his soldiers and civilian resistors of the Russian invasion to die at Berlin because he thought they had failed him in WWII...)

I think the OP has the adjectives reversed.

I think he's being ironical.

Moderate Saudis gun down Radical Democratic Protesters? Really?

Bravo said:

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/2011310185818570316.html

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Your title isn’t very accurate. While it’s inexcusable, there is a big difference between being “gunned down” and being “fired upon”.

I'm not defending the Saudi government, but according to WSJ Online they fired rubber bullets.

Saudi police fired rubber bullets Thursday to disperse at least 200 Shiite protesters in Qatif, a town in the oil-rich Eastern Province, according to local human rights activists. Summer Said has details from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Reminds me of the 1999 WTO demonstrations in Seattle.

Nov. 30, 1999: A Seattle police officer aims a rubber-pellet weapon at a group of anti-WTO demonstrators at Sixth and Pine who were attempting to block access to the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.

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I’m not really sure the Obama photo is any more pertinent to your post than these.








At least President Obama kept him at arm's length.

Hey CD? Just checking, you do know those last two are photoshopped, right? There's somethings I don't think even Mr. Cheney could get Pres. Bush to do.

Magdalen said:

I think the OP has the adjectives reversed.

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Bravo has a Poetic License, he showed it to me, it's still in effect, hasn't expired yet.

CDSinex said:

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At least President Obama kept him at arm's length.

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You have to do that to bow down to someone.

I'm just sayin'.

Bravo said:

obama's president right now.


stay tuned.

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What do you want President Obama to do?

What leverage does he have if Saudi starts gunning people down in the streets?

Is there anything we can do?

I must admit. I'm a big fan of oil. It's a great product and want to keep having it since Obama and no President seems to come up with an energy policy that stops us from needing it especially from the dictators of the middle east.

How do we exert leverage and not have to walk to work and have our entire country collapse?

Williebee said:

Hey CD? Just checking, you do know those last two are photoshopped, right? There's somethings I don't think even Mr. Cheney could get Pres. Bush to do.

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According to Wolf Blitzer it’s real.

Here’s another clip that shows (mocks?) the whole thing. It's funny you mentioned Cheney.



It's true a photo freezes a moment in time; I never suggested they made out. I posted them in the same spirit as Bravo's photo of Obama. If you still feel the kiss never occurred I will take them down and replace them with this one from CBS news.

Bravo said:

you live in NYC! why do you drive?

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I was talking on behalf of the country.

Thank you.

benbradley said:

You have to do that to bow down to someone.

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He has to. He's taller than most of these guys.

Though it's probably a good thing ol' Ibn Saud, the founder of the Saudi monarchy, is long gone. He stood 6'7".

Bravo said:

well, personally, i think americans should walk more. itll cut down on gas consumption AND help with our obesity epidemic.

people often ask me how i look so good and i always tell them its three things:

1) i moisturize

2) take the stairs and walk everywhere

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While I agree with you in general, relative to fitness, and especially taking the stairs, the "walk everywhere" dictum just doesn't cut it in most places. You ain't gonna "walk everywhere" living where I do, as one example among many.

Bravo said:

3) i have better genes then 99.999% of the human population. and that's being generous to everyone else.

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Thank you, Charlie Sheen. I was not aware you frequented AW.

Bravo said:

so i'm fine with higher oil prices if it helps more americans lose weight and stay fit.

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There are pros and cons involved with higher oil prices. One of the big "cons" is what this does to people trying to stay warm in cold climates. Particularly poor people and isolated rural communities. I'm of the opinion that our Federal gasoline taxes are ridiculously low (currently 18.4 cents per gallon, about 5% of the retail price). It always amazes me that the public thinks we can get much lower gasoline prices by lowering the Federal tax on it. Individual state taxes are in the same order of magnitude, with the highest in the country being only about twice the Fed rate, and many states being lower than the Fed. Taxation on gasoline ain't the problem for prices, people.

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that said, i think there's little obama can do if (And that's a big "if") mass protests erupt in saudi arabia.

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Correct. Remember that, if things get bad there, because Republicans are going to be clamoring for him to "do something".

Bravo said:

thats why more people should move to cities; theyd be more liberal, tolerant, and healthier.

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The horror, the horror.

Bravo said:

no way.

i have better abs.

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I didn't know that the Situation posted on AW.

I'm disappointed but not surprised that when the uprising spreads to Saudi Arabia the conversation in the U.S. focuses on the price of oil. Just a few days ago the conversation was all about what it meant for them rather than for us.