[aristeides]

Democratic Iraq spells doom for the House of Saud.

[Vladiator]

Nuke the oil.

We'll muddle through.

[solzhenitsyn]

Thanks, Pokey. I read years ago that thousands of members of the Saudi Royal Family have diplomatic immunity when they travel here. If that's so, I don't know why they should should be so privileged. We need to begin showing the Saudis our displeasure, and we could start with the small things first. They seem already to have forgotten that we saved their country during the Gulf War.

[Pearls Before Swine]

The Saudis have been angered and bewildered by these reports.

Angered, maybe. Bewildered--naaaaah. What would the Saudis think if some random country on the world scene-- say Paraguay--supplied from its citizens the large majority of people on a series of planes that crashed into the Qaabah stone and the Saudi Royal Palace? Suppose then that this country further was found to fund anti-Islamic terrorists, and had heavy anti-Arabic indoctrination of its citizens through a controlled and vitriolic press.

Would the (for example) Paraguayans be suprised and bewildered that the Saudis were upset? I think not.

It is only in the presence of a presumed essential PC attitude of "open-mindedness" that anyone in the US would give this bewildered drivel 5 seconds of attention.

[SBeck]

One of the more strategic reasons for going into Iraq and removing Saddam is to establish a more U.S.-friendly regime and resume buying oil from Iraq. This would marginalize the 7-15% (take your pick) dependency the U.S. has on Saudi oil and weaken the House of Saud's hold on the region. A weakened Saudi ruling class would destabilize the country and allow us to install a more democratic and less 8th century government which would be happy to keep oil prices low for us.

Cynical you say? No, just pragmatic.

[arm958]

If there is one thing that makes me want to shoot my T.V., it's some Saudi Arabian spokesman/apologist polluting the airwaves. 15/19 I won't forget.

[river rat]

The House of Saud is a diseased whore that gave birth to and sustains radical/militant Islam...
The two faced lying bitch has earned our hatred, and deserves to feel the wrath of a brutal American vengence.
Semper Fi

[Grampa Dave]

How more and more Americans are viewing the Vile Saudi Opecker Princes:

[TheLooseThread]

"For half a century, Saudi Arabia has been a key economic and strategic ally of the United States."

Uh. Bull.