Posted on 04/09/2002 12:50:35 PM PDT by truthandlife
Former US president George Bush on Friday spoke out on behalf of Arab leaders, many of whom still maintain relations with him.
Asked about the seeming embrace of Iraq by Arab states at the Beirut summit last month, Bush told NBC's Today show: "I don't think they support Saddam Hussein. I think if that was the interpretation, it's totally erroneous. I know Crown Prince Abdullah very, very well, and he doesn't like Saddam Hussein."
Asked about critics who say the Bush administration has erred by not identifying Arafat as a terrorist, and by being reluctant to apply the Bush doctrine of "you are either with us or you are with the terrorists" to the PA, the former president described the views of many Arab leaders. "And some in other parts of the world feel it is not applying to Mr. Sharon," he said.
Precisely. And ALWAYS.
You left out the most important part to these people: COUNTRY CLUB
Class envy; right here at FR.
Did it ever occur to you that you're too insignificant for her to reply to? As for me, you're like a snake, and I just like to poke you with a stick.
How does it feel to be so out of the loop?
They forget Norway loaned us some F-16's we needed when all ours were tied up in Afghanistan.
So we should kiss the a$$e$ of a couple of little countries and sell our allies down the river so that our own battles are easier. I guess there is a point where morals don't count and we ignore any pledges we made.
I've always believed in the Golden Rule, too bad Bush doesn't. Our letting Israel down, will come back to haunt us. Just as his father didn't finish the job in Iraq, and it's come back to haunt us. Just as clinton ignored OBL, it came back to haunt us.
Guess Bela Kun,Kamanev Lazar Kaganovitch,Trotsky,Uritskii,Sverdlov, Zinoviev, Genrikh Yagoda,Radek, Rosa Schwartz,Joffe,Yakir and others didn't teach those anti-semitic Europeans enough of a lesson did they?
He could take the moral high ground and climb out of the dirty oil/blood money. He would gain a lot of respect, not just among those of us on the right side of the spectrum, but probably pick up a little on the left as well (I'm talking mainly liberal Jews). Right now, he is living upto the liberals' image of somebody who is beholden to oil money.
The impact of Saudi money can not be underestimated. Prince Alwaleed Saud is the largest single investor in AOL Time Warner, parent of CNN. Notice any slight bias there?
All the more reason to distance himself - CNN isn't exactly a bastion of Conservatives, if you haven't noticed.
Why should he care? I would almost say a large majority of the conservatives will support Bush, no matter how big he wants to grow the government, or how far left he wants to dance along. Just as there were liberals who supported clinton no matter how sleazy he got, or how much he degraded women and his family and his office, there are conservatives who are going to support Bush.
With his shift to the left, he'll pick up enough votes to counter those of us on the right who are going to vote for somebody else.
We do what is in America's best interest. Period. And don't preach morals to the USA. We still don't know what Pollard did. We don't know his controler. We don't know how much damage was done. He refuses to talk. But the "Israel First" crowd wants him sprung from prison. We have and will support Israel. But America will not be pushed around. We learned early on, in the Lavon Affair, that Israel will hurt USA interests severely if they choose.
Yes, we should be friends with Qatar and Bahrain. Both of them have done more for the USA than Israel ever has.
That's the problem.
Bush is doing exactly what the liberals accused him of doing, being beholden to big business, which in this case, is the Saudis.
I wish he would act on his moral and religious beliefs (if they still exist), but this trend of his leftly, I mean lately, defies all logic.
Unless your loyalties are to the Saudi god of oil.
"Islam is a religion of peace."
You cannot say this by the Spirit of the LORD God of Israel.
Lies, Hypocrisy, Deceit, Betrayal
I am a Christian and I freely admit that there are those among our group who would probably kill Muslims and Jews. Hopefully all of our faiths can purge the nutcases and live and let live.
I guess ultimately we have the industrial revolution to blame. No internal combustion engines, no need for oil. Because of oil, Franklin Roosevelt cut an exclusive deal with the Saudis at the end of WW II to keep the British from a monopoly on the area. The British then aligned with Jordan, Oman, Bahrain, etc.
Great history of Western Oil and the Middle East:
Establishing the American Presence in the Middle East
excerpt: In 1943, the British controlled 81% of Middle East oil production as compared with 14% under American control. Roughly the same disparity existed in Middle East refinery capacity, where the giant Abadan refinery in Iran helped to give the United Kingdom 85% of the region's refinery capacity as compared with 8% under American control. The fact that the Axis powers - Germany, Japan, and Italy - had no oil interests in the Middle East did not deter the two major Allied Powers from engaging in commercial rivalry in the midst of World War II.
Letter From President Roosevelt to the King of Saudi Arabia Regarding Palestine-(April 5, 1945)
President Roosevelt & King Abdel Aziz
LOL!...at least Justin doesn't engage in mindless rantings and personal attacks about antisemites everywhere. He just rants about...everything. Endlessly. With plenty of links too.
You catch the new target tonight? Norweigans! They are antisemites! They helped the Nazis! The "Israel Firsters" got tired of beating up on the Pope I guess. It is becoming surreal on this forum.
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