Posted on 10/14/2005 7:19:22 PM PDT by Pokey78
Did the Guardian bring Rod Serling back to life to write this crap?
I wish we would go further. I figure the Sauds owe us a few million barrels for letting them live!!
And this clown got ahold of this not HOW?
Well, let's see, Mr. Blair didn't tell this author that he agreed to invasions of nations such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and I'd suspect Pres. Bush did not do so either...so just where did he get his facts?...or is it that as a leftist he doesn't really need facts to back up his kool aid induced ramblings?
So Bush "wanted to go beyond Iraq in dealing with WMD proliferation". And the problem with this...?
The coming of the cruise missile has forced us into a technological shift where ground based forces are the only certain way to maintain our interests in the region.
Are we supposed to be surprised that we have a multitude of contingency plans for this area?
Sounds like a good idead to me...
Don't ya just love the Guardian?
"Did the Guardian bring Rod Serling back to life to write this crap?"
heh heh heh. Aaaaah. What's the use. heh heh heh. I bet I know how Tony responded. Damn right yank, when do we start buddy. My boys need some TA practice on live ones. The butcher aint going to last very long, buddy.
The same delusional British media that recently mis-reported Pres. Bush as having told the Palestinian leader that God made him do 'it'...
Tick tick tick...
5.56mm
Most people have picked up on the strange love-hate relationship that exists between the Saudi royal family, and Al Qaeda. The royals, the government, and other elite in the country fund them and encourage them, except when they attack the royal family itself, which is considered bad.
No solution to Al Qaeda could ever be workable without addressing Saudi Arabia itself. And no solution to Saudi Arabia was possible while Saddam sat in Baghdad. We were in the also strange situation of having to get Riyadh's permission to use its territory to defend it, and that gave the Saudis veto control over our foreign policy.
No Saddam, no need for Saudi permission, and suddenly the dynamic has changed. The royals have understood that we no longer need them to be our "ambassador" to the muslim world, and we will not be there automatically to defend them against anyone. So suddenly you have the Saudis falling over themselves swearing their friendship, and promising democracy, something that has never happened.
I said immediately after 911 that the road to Riyadh lay right through Baghdad, and I still believe it. The only problem is that, if Saddam's files were full of incriminating information on half the heads of state in the known world, just think what the Saudis have in theirs. Since no one wants to see aging politicians clapped into handcuffs in the twilight of their years, we'll have to go very carefully.
Well, I might like to see some of them in handcuffs, but you get the point. If we ever decide to drop the hammer, we'd better move quick. The first troops in will have to make seizing harddrives a top priority.
i assume the guardian thinks this is a negative article... on the contrary, i'm quite glad that bush and blair discuss such options. they would be negligent if they didn't.
We are in complete agreement. I've no doubt that the policy is accurately described, though the story told here may be a fabrication.
We are in a much better position to pressure the Saudis from Iraq than we were in-country. And they know it. The invasion of Iraq was a smoke signal to Riyadh to "reform or else."
Another fake document, I noticed they didn't post a copy of it for us.
Looks like it is from Texas as well.
Whether the document is fake or not is less important than a discussion of US policy towards Saudi Arabia and neighbors (Yemen).
If the story stimulates a discussion, then we are better served.
Wrong verb...
Our media seems to have been able to get a ready supply of real documents from inside the Foreign Office concerning things like this, they don't really have the need to fake them.
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