[Southack]

If the Saudis wanted to hurt us, they'd simply lower their oil exports by 5 or 10%...just enough to drive prices into the $80's per barrel.

But the Saudis are fighting al qaeda inside Saudi Arabia itself, where Zarqawi and Osama Bin Laden have made several attacks (as well as attacked inside Jordan), something that seems to be completely beyond your level of intellectual comprehension.

You certainly can't satisfactorally explain why the Saudis are fighting Al Qaeda; that seems to go against your engrained biases. Heaven forbid that the truth get in the way of your limitless rants.

[Velveeta]

Actually, the majority of attacks inside Saudi Arabia have been on compounds which house Westerners.

The Saudi's do manage to catch a few of the attackers, but most of them somehow (~wink, wink~) get away.

Even of those jailed, mysteriously escape from jail or are pardoned.

[anticommunist8]

"You certainly can't satisfactorally explain why the Saudis are fighting Al Qaeda; that seems to go against your engrained biases. Heaven forbid that the truth get in the way of your limitless rants."

They're "fighting" Al Qaeda because Bush tells him to make it look like he is.

[USAfearsnobody]

If the Saudis wanted to hurt us, they'd simply lower their oil exports by 5 or 10%...just enough to drive prices into the $80's per barrel.

They've done worse before, my friend! And listen, if the Sauds gave a wit about the good of the US economy, they'd already do what they need to do. Why are you defending, of all families, the SAUDS (I haven't seen the post you are replying to so maybe I'm missing something)? If there is an Axis of Evil, Saudi Arabia is the Epicenter of Evil.