Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/13/2009 11:09:35 PM PST by ksm1
Video on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erk22YkMybA
Saudi Arabia uses fighter jets against Yemeni Houthi rebels. Both Yemen & Saudi Arabia accuse Iran of arming the rebels. Why did Arab satellites carriers drop Iranian Al Alam TV? And will the war of proxies lead to a confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran ?
Sunni vs. Shiite. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Let them go at it.
The day the Iranians test a nuke, the Saudis will pay whatever it takes to buy them from Pakistan and/or North Korea.
A look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
Previously...
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2377684/posts
Yemeni Shi’ite Cleric and Houthi Disciple ‘Issam Al-’Imad: Our Leader Houthi is Close to Khamenei...
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch No. 2627 ^ | November 2, 2009 | n/a
Posted on November 3, 2009 1:22:05 PM PST by Cindy
SNIPPET: “Yemeni Shi’ite Cleric and Houthi Disciple ‘Issam Al-’Imad: Our Leader Houthi is Close to Khamenei; We Are Influenced Religiously and Ideologically By Iran”
SNIPPET: “On September 28, 2009, the Iranian website ayandenews.com, which is affiliated with former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezai, published an interview with cleric ‘Issam Al-’Imad, who is a disciple of Hussein Al-Houthi, leader of the Houthi rebels in Yemen. [1] Al-’Imad, who was born 1968 in Yemen, received his religious education in Saudi Arabia, but after studying Shi’ite Islam left Wahhabism to become a Twelver Shi’ite. Since1989 he has been pursuing advanced Islamic studies in the holy city of Qom in Iran. [2]
In the interview, Al-Imad describes the religious, ideological, and political affinity that has evolved between the Yemeni Houthis and the Iranian regime, saying that the Houthis have effectively converted from Zaidi Shi’a to Twelver Shi’a, which is Iran’s official religion. [3] He adds that Houthi leaders have visited and lived in Qom, that their leader Hussein Al-Houthi considers Ayatollah Khomeini to be a model for emulation, and that Al-Houthi’s relationship with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is similar to Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s.
Following are excerpts from the interview:”
(Excerpt) Read more at memri.org ...
LOL. Have to agree with you.
It’s telling when you see pictures of the 0 bowing down to the Kings and the W holding the Kings hand.
Let them blow one another up.
A little trouble in Russia, how about the rags going back to eating sand? Stabilizing the dollar, putting South America( read Hugo Chavez) losing influence.
I can't think of one downside from us drilling and producing our own energy.
Sunna or later, Shi’ite happens..
Back in the 1970s it was believed that the continental U.S. had little to no oil deposits left to exploit. So Saudi Arabia was important to our energy needs.
Now we know better!
That, and we start using natural gas and nuclear power more.
The saudis believe manual labor is religiously beneth them. Who in the hell is going to fight an actual war? Most of their military is just there to act as a personal protection force for the royals.
The Saudis will come begging us to do the fighting for them.
the Sauds already own the Paki nooks
Obama will be the great mediator. He will sit down with leaders from both countries and convince them that it is foolish to direct their anger at one another....when they can direct their anger at Israel and the U.S. instead. Then he’ll apologize for America again and start foolishly bowing to both.
Of course that would only work if we were to embark on a crash course of developing and recovering our vast reserves of oil and gas.
That would be a win-win situation, but sadly will never happen.
Donning my tinfoil hat, I am convinced that there is some (maybe a lots) of Saudi (and OPEC) $$$ being used somehow (in addition to lobbyist)to influence Congress and others to obstruct and prevent our becoming energy independent--and I don't mean wind and solar.
Our enemies, the Communists, can and they control the House, Senate and Executive office. Look at what the Democrats have been doing for the last seventy years and the answer is obvious.
“Who in the hell is going to fight an actual war? Most of their military is just there to act as a personal protection force for the royals.”
Well, every Saudi prince drives a fighter (or so it is said). It isn’t as great a deterrent as you might think, since it takes a significant compliment of American expats embedded in the formations to shepherd Allah’s Air Force about the skies. Obviously, it is not quite as selective a process for the local talent as we are used to in the States.
You’re right though, the “warrior ethic” requires a certain degree of diligence and willingness to get your hands dirty that is not immediately apparent in the Saudi citizenry (terrorist suicide factions excluded of course).
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