Posted on 11/25/2007 1:58:28 AM PST by PRePublic
By Ted Belman In my article The Vast Power of the Saudi Lobby, which I urge you to read again. Here are a few extracts, Within thirty-six hours, Bandar was on his way to Riyadh with a conciliatory response from Bush. When Bandar returned Powell cornered him. Is America over a barrel of oil? Definitely. And what Saudis want is al Quds with the Temple Mount and the greenline and G-d knows what else. Saudis have the US over a barrel of oil
.. the U.S. ambassador to Riyahd, James Akins, did his best to placate King Faisal by urging the Saudi’s American-owned oil concessionaire ARAMCO to, in Akin’s words, “hammer home” to the White House that the embargo (seventies) wouldn’t be lifted unless
As a result of this power, I wrote Whatever Saudis Want Saudis Get. “the political struggle is settled in manner satisfactory to Arabs.”
Prince Bandar told Bush Starting today, you go your way and we will go our way. From then on, the Saudis would look out for their own national interests.
It seemed the United States had made a strategic decision to adopt Sharon’s policy as American policy. “What the fuck are you doing?” witnesses recall Powell asking. “You’re putting the fear of God in everybody’s hearts here. We’ve all come rushing here to hear this revelation that you bring from Saudi Arabia. You scared the shit out of everybody.”
When Iran does more saber rattling we will see where everyone really stands.
It seems that the Iranians fear more the Saudis than us...
This is the big reason their have been no oil embargo's since the 1970s. The Saudis learned that they are as addicted to our money and we are addicted to their cheap oil.
Our problem is not addiction to oil, our problem has always been our addiction to cheap oil. The price of oil going up to $100 is the best thing that could happen for us. By over pricing their oil, the Arabs have finally priced themselves so high other US domestic and regional oil sources, and other sources of energy, have become economically viable.
OPEC is in the process of killing themselves. We should stay out of their way
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