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It's Time to Break With Saudi Arabia's 'Kingdom of Horrors'

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This article exposes what we are supporting when we  support Saudi Arabia. It’s not pretty, and we need to take a long, hard look at our relationship with them. It is a very good article IMO. Here’s the first paragraph:

Saudi King Salman decided that a 10-vehicle motorcade in Washington, D.C., was too small for his needs, so his people rented 400 black Mercedes S-class automobiles to make it bigger. There was no place to put them all, so the White House housed them at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland until they were needed. Wall Street Journal correspondent Carol Lee snapped a picture. Salman was in D.C. earlier this month for a meeting with President Obama. To house his retinue, he rented the entire Four Seasons hotel in Georgetown....

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