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This is getting press coverage in Australia because he is currently here on a business trip.
They are all full of cowardly terrorists. People that strap bombs on their children, are nothing more than cowards themselves.
They all hate us, so they all must be exterminated.
This is the closest thing to reason that I've seen or heard since 9/11.
As to the rest of the theory, you'd have to have an IQ of under 2 not to figure that one out. Of course Iraq is of strategic importance to the war on terror. Of course Iraq is the best place to begin to drain the swamp, the dimmness of these so called experts is amazing. The people of FR figured all this out long ago. It was never just one issue, it was all of them together.
If I remember correctly, S.A. lowered the price of oil significantly days before we went into Iraq.
If S.A. is the "real reason" for the war, then why did they do that?
Dr Friedman, in Australia on a business trip, said the US administration never wanted to explain the complex reasons for invading Iraq, keeping them from both the public and their closest supporters.
"That, primarily, was the fact that Saudi Arabia was facilitating the transfer of funds to al-Qaeda, was refusing to cooperate with the US and believed in its heart of hearts that the US would never take any action against them," he said.
OUTSTANDING perceptive ANALYSIS, right on the mark. The Saudi Royals are sponsporing the radical Islamic fundamentalist sect, Wahhabism, the madrassas in Pakistan, the "Talabombed" in Afghanistan and funneling funds to Al Qaeda (the terrorist wing of the Saudi government). U.S. occupied Iraq is like a safe harbor for when the Islamic extremist Jihadis finally overthrow the Saudi Royals who are not our allies in the first place. The Saudi Royals are riding the tiger of terrorism which they have created for themselves. Sure, Iraq had the butcher of Baghdad (Good riddance) and his two barbarian sons (especially Uday) but the real reason for liberating Iraq is because of Saudi Arabia.
Ever wonder why the nation of Qatar allowed the U.S. to have a base of operations within Qatar. Ans: The Saudis tried to assassinate around 1996 the Ruler of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Kalifa Al-Thani with (get this) French mercenaries who screwed up (thankfully the "Cluseauites" botched the job) because the Ruler or Emir of Qatar was too "progressive" and forward thinking ("may Allah forbid" according to the Saudis) allowing Qatari women to drive autos and vote, bring modernity to the country etc. Qatar is a country with a future (an ally of the U.S.) while Saudi Arabia is a future fundamentalist Islamic ghetto.
The author of the article, Dr. George Friedman knows what he is talking about.
I have personally lived and worked in Saudi Arabia and Qatar and have an idea of what is going on in the Middle East.
IMO, both Abdullah and the president knew that S.A. didn't have the strength to act. That was back in the summer of 2002. That's what was talked about at the two Crawford meetings.
So we agreed to go after two traditional enemies of Abdullah. Saddam and of course al Qaeda -- which we were doing anyway. Also, we agreed to remove our troops from S.A., a point of weakness to Abdullah and we also agreed to try a so-called road-map with Israel and the Pali's.
Anyway, a year after the meetings, in 2003, al Qaeda was significantly weakened, Saddam was in his hiddy-hole and our troops were removed from S.A.
Anyway with all of this done late in 2003, Abdullah became strong enough to act -- and it appears that he is acting.
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The war was waged in order to obtain a strategic base from which to coerce countries such as Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia into using their resources to destroy al Qaeda within their borders.
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