MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show March 22, 2018
President , over half a million troops had been based in saudi arabia. Saudi bases were the launching pad for attacks to defend kuwait against the forces of hussain. Saddam hussein. After the first gulf war was over, thousands of troops stayed on those saudi bases thereafter. But in 2003, less than two years after 9 11, saudi government asked, and the u. S. Government acceded and handed over the keys to the Prince Sultan air base, that base that had hosted tens, even hundreds of thousands of u. S. Troops. Where the United States decided to move its big, new, Permanent Air base in that part of ...