MBS and Saudi Arabia: The Dubious Company Trump and Kushner Keep
With Saudi Arabia we have compromised America’s soul
On the altar of low-priced oil
That Bush knew their 911 complicity
Is evidenced by US duplicity
With Saudi’s protected exit flights
And a 28 page 911 report redact
Allowing Bush to launch the long-desired attack
On completely innocent Iraq.
So when Obama/ Trump sell the Saudi’s $110bn in arms
No one raises the alarm
We see with Kushner, Trump and Bin Salman it coming to pass
And facilitating the Saudi-American-Yemini war morass.
A war of horrendous barbarity
And a flagrant crime against humanity
Khashoggi and his fiancé At the Saudi Consulate appear
In Istanbul before their wedding day and he disappears
And the Turks claim video and audio documentation
Of his torture, asphyxiation and brutal dismembering execution
At the hands of a 15 man hit squad
Including a forensic pathologist—no fraud
With expertise in the performance or rapid field autopsies
His body is skillfully dismembered with a smoking bone saw (Lindsy Graham) that day
And the kill team is later seen flying away.
The Saudi’s early on admit
That during interrogation an accident
Occurred so let us examine the possible mechanics of this event
And surmise the sequence of how things went.
A knife “accidentally” slits his throat and decapitates his head
With sponges and buckets to contain the voluminous blood red
That issues forth in a forceful flood
And tarps spread out to catch the blood.
Before we go on let me explain
In field conditions how one dispenses with remains
Bags large enough to hold an entire body
Are rapidly constructed using thick plastic sheets
Sealed by heat
The extremities are disarticulated at the joints
By skillful utilization of scalpel blade points
Or knives razor sharp that cut to the bone
Then the Stryker bone saw yields pieces
Small enough one man can carry alone.
Abdominal viscera are swiftly
Dissected into manageable pieces
And heat-sealed into water tight packets
Small enough to slip beneath a jacket
Decapitating the head and spine may be a chore
As there are muscles and vertebra galore
Which must be carefully sectioned to avoid the bone
And limit to the cutting of soft tissues alone
Similarly the abdomen and thorax are
With knife or saw broken down to manageable piece
And packaged up the size of a valise.
Ready for the retreat
Then the lies follow one-by one:
A fist fight against 15 brutes ensued
An accidental twas said
That left Khashoggi dead
But the next day with world-wide condemnation
Trump gives Bin Salman a possible explanation
That this was done by a rogue team
And definitely and repeatedly said
But not on the order of Bin Salman’s head.
Only intercepts show the consulate was involved
In steering Khashoggi to his horrific murder scene
And two of the hit men on the team
Worked in Bin Salman’s office it seems.
The Saudis state: at first he walked out of the embassy
But the bizarrely dressed body double all could see
Was in no way the reporter Jamal Khashoggi
Later the Saudi’s admitted he in the embassy died
Despite their earlier egregious lies.
An investigation the Saudi’s promised for which the world yearn
Would leave no stone unturned.
The Turkish report has seen the light of day
As $25 billion inducement did not make it go away.
But the purpose of this perfectly visible mission
Was to demonstrate the danger to his opposition.
Pompeo and Trump refuse to hear the murder tape
Trump says a suffering tape to be sure
But Gina Haspel did and concluded
Bin Salman’s responsible and Trump is deluded.
And Trump will never outright blame
Bin Salman or defame him.
His criticism was not about this horrific deed
But rather that it was the worst cover-up he seen
Trump lies and insists he has no financial interests in Saudi Arabia-NONE
But Kushner and Trump are linked to Bin Salman
With lucrative financial deals between the families for years
Meaning there is more here than appears.
And Kushner, the object of our scorn
Advised the prince how to weather the Khashoggi storm.
And Trumps response is most telling
And reflects the sanctity to him of the weapons he’s selling
So what’s the life of a lawful US resident and reporter for the Washington Post?
Compared with $110 billion at most?
His response really is telling
As it really is all about the weapons he is selling
And all those “good” jobs and compensation
Producing weapons of death and mass annihilation.
Trump says “maybe he did, maybe he didn’t”
We’ll never know.
As we too have rendered and killed extra judicially with premeditation
And may be seen to provide Saudi’s the inspiration.
Who knows Trump’s enmity toward the Washington Post
May have influenced Bin Salman to kill a reporter
Working for the paper Trump hates the most.
But billions of weapons sales and thousands of jobs
Are at stake.
Trump just wants to make America great
But starting with Obama and continuing with Trump
We’ve provided weapons and logistic support that seems
To have blasted this impoverished Yemen to smithereens.
Hospitals, sanitation and infrastructure destroyed without restraint
In actions reminiscent of ISIS
Leading to 85,000 children’s deaths and a UN Humanitarian Crisis
A million people with cholera and 13 million of this nation
On the verge of excruciating starvation.
But perhaps these horrendous and outrageous grizzly facts
Will goad our immoral moribund congress to finally act.
So stop, look, what are the money and weapons for?
But to further our complicity in a brutal and vicious war.
MLK said and he was certainly right
My country is the greatest purveyor of violence
In the world today and in the same breath
And that our country is approaching moral and spiritual death
The Senate recently passed a 57-41 resolution
Requiring US cessation
Of the US-Saudi War prosecution
But Ryan blocks the House vote to end this abomination
And made it clear they believe the CIA
That had a lot to say
That MBS is in for a slog
As intercepts reported they told him “We have the head of the dog.”
We must follow the lead of CodePink
To pursue a Peace Economy I think
That pursues a path of redemption and removes this blot on our souls
And help make the world whole
Howard P. Charman, MD 10-12-18 to 1-17-18
Medea Benjamin: Kingdom of the Unjust.
Note: Trump and Kushner have had long time financial dealings with the Bin Salman family and in fact assisted his coming to power. Kushner urged the Saudi’s to Blockade Qatar after they refused to lend him money to bail out 666 5th Avenue.
Terrence Ward: The Wahhabi Code: How the Saudi’s Spread Extremism Globally. Points out that 90% of the terrorism world-side (including 911) can be traced to the perverted interpretation of Sunni Islam, the Wahhabi Code, which originates and is financed by Saudi Arabia and is the philosophical basis of ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Harom and other jihadi terrorist organizations.
4-12-2022 Kushner Updated.
On the 1-6 insurrection / coup day
Kushner was on a plane winging his way
Back from a meeting by report with MBS
Discussing what is anyone’s guess.
What a difference a day makes with this decision
Removing Kushner from conspiracy suspicion
But in the last few days the New York Times we are told
Reports that Kushner has been the recipient of Saudi Arabian gold
2 billion dollars of MBS’s sovereign wealth fund cash
Given to Kushner because of an MBS pass
Overruling the regulators who had great reluctance
About Kushner’s flagrant lack of experience.
So many questions immediately arise
Concerning such a lucrative prize
Is this a reward for Kushner help with public relations
Surrounding the murder with unfriendly nations?
Or a payment for future cooperation
If Trump becomes the leader of our embattled nation?
For Biden has been critical and it has come to pass
That to decrease the price to pump our gas
Biden has been attempting to get to Saudis to help him out
To reduce inflation and hence increase Biden’s clout.
But despite our helping MBS with everything big and small
To fight the Saudi American war: MBS– refuses his call.
So, to me it seems Trump and Kushner’s protecting this egregious butcher
Is good for their collective future.
Howard P. Charman, MD 4-12-2022
“Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts. New York Times. David Kirkpatrick and Kate Kelly. April 10, 2022