Sen. Rand Paul recently published a poll on Twitter asking, "Should the U.S. be selling $1.15 billion in arms to our unreliable 'ally' Saudi Arabia?"

This comes on the heels of a State Department announcement that the U.S. will be selling over $1 billion worth of tanks and other weapons to the U.S.'s ally in the Middle East.


The poll concluded with 52,525 votes; 73 percent voted "Yes," and just 27 percent voted "No."

Many popular Saudi accounts urged their followers to vote in the poll, which dramatically shifted the results.


There are hundreds of comments on the poll, in both Arabic and English, criticizing Sen. Paul. The comments range from insulting Paul's intelligence, to accusing the U.S. of causing ISIS. One user even accused the United States of being the "source of terrorists," through its attacks on the Middle East.


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