U.S. to Saudis: “If you don’t help us, why should we be helping you?”
At a press conference following the vote on the Democratic proposal to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) says that “we are saying to the Saudis that ‘if you don’t help us, why should we be helping you?’” He says that the relationship should be a “two-way street,” and that although Saudi Arabia needs U.S. military arms, the U.S. needs Saudi Arabia to “cooperate, and not strangle American consumers.” (0:25)
May 13, 2008
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