{"id":8428,"date":"2014-09-10T18:38:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T18:38:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-09-10T18:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T18:38:14","slug":"who_do_you_mean_when_you_say_the_saudis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/09\/10\/who_do_you_mean_when_you_say_the_saudis\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Mean When You Say “The Saudis”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Here is Dan, Tysons Corner, Virginia. Thank you for waiting and welcome to the program, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I\u2019ve been listening to you for over 20 years, and trying to call you, and I finally hit the right 8 and 2. What do you think of that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think that it\u2019s our lucky day, and I appreciate your persistence. Twenty years is a long time. I really appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Over 20.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a long time. That\u2019s a big deal. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Some of the facts that the media don\u2019t project is in the fifties when Syria and Egypt were part of the United Arab Republic, Russia has a warm-water port on the Mediterranean, which they still have, and they\u2019re not gonna relinquish that. So that\u2019s a fact. And then number two is that your fact about the Free Syrian Army, the Kurds have been capturing weapons of the Islamics that they\u2019ve been killing and these weapons are ours, and the serial numbers have been welded over. And as everyone knows a lot of Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, have been funneling arms to the Free Syrians. That\u2019s a fact. That was in the Post the other day. The last fact I\u2019d like to give you is an old Islamic proverb that it\u2019s better to deal with the devil that you know than deal with the devil that you don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that applies to whom in this case?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: It applies to everyone in the Middle East. Who is who, we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When you say the Saudis, can I ask you a question about that? People tell me, and I hear from people all the time, “The Saudis are doing this. The Saudis are doing that.” Who are the Saudis? And there\u2019s no wrong answer. I\u2019m just curious who you mean. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I will give you a fact that two weeks after 9\/11 Winston Churchill\u2019s grandson spoke to the National Press Club, and at that time he said the Saudis were the problem.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but who? Who are the Saudis? <\/p>\n

CALLER: The family, there\u2019s a lot of princes that get —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The royal family. So King Abdullah on down?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are the Saudis.<\/p>\n

CALLER: A lot of the princes that comprise of the royal family. There\u2019s a lot of princes that get the oil royalty.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s over 200 of \u2019em.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s all blood money as you know. A lot of it went to Osama Bin Laden.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait a minute though. I find this fascinating, because — and I\u2019m not arguing with you. Don\u2019t misunderstand. It was just, let\u2019s see, I get confused by how much time in the past, when I was off a week. I think this happened the week before I left. Might have happened while I was away. No, \u2019cause I didn\u2019t pay attention to anything. The king, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia had a party, a reception at his private residence in Jeddah, which is half the city, I think. I mean, it\u2019s huge. It would take you two days to drive around the thing. I\u2019m joking, but I mean the private residence of the king, it\u2019s huge. <\/p>\n

King Abdullah and new ambassadors to Saudi Arabia are the guests. And I think John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, happened to be there. Maybe not at this particular reception, but had been there either soon before or came in later, a day or two later. But the king of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, whatever, he told these ambassadors to go back to their home countries or to cable their leaders and warn them about ISIS. He said they are going to be in Europe in a month. <\/p>\n

You remember this now? They\u2019re going to be in Europe in a month, and in another month they\u2019re going to be in America. He warned them of this. I\u2019m sitting there and I\u2019m looking at this, Dan, and I\u2019m saying, “You\u2019re the guy sponsoring \u2019em!” Dan\u2019s right. The Saudi royal family is the Saudis. When you hear the Saudis, they are Wahhabism. They are the ones who fund all the Saudi charities around the world or the Islamic charities. They were not supporters of bin Laden. <\/p>\n

As you know, bin Laden didn\u2019t like the Saudi royal family, tried to wipe \u2019em out, and they themselves are targets of terrorist attacks as well. But even at that they fund a lot of this. The Saudis are really radical Islamists, on the one hand. On the other hand, they\u2019re our partner in oil. It\u2019s one of the strangest things, and I actually conduct a test, I ask everybody who says the Saudis are doing this, “Who do you mean, the Saudis?” And most people say, “Well, you know, all the imams over there.” Hardly anybody ever thinks it\u2019s the Saudi royal family. They are victims, too. But they run that country. They are totally in charge of Saudi Arabia. (interruption) Who are our friends? Well, who are our real friends in that region, the Israelis. <\/p>\n

And then, you know, we have a fairly decent allied relationship with Pakistan, \u2019cause they have nukes, but that\u2019s always dicey. (interruption) Well, it\u2019s Obama, but it\u2019s always been dicey. But when you say “who are our friends?” We don\u2019t really have a whole lot of real friends. The king of Jordan was. Well, the Kurds are cool, but the Kurds have tiddlywinks. (interruption) Mubarak was, yeah, but it wasn\u2019t cool to have Mubarak as a friend. Why do we dump on our real friend? Well, why do we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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