[metesky]

There's a lot more going under cover...

President Bush is walking a tightrope here.

On the one hand, he needs to hold our enemies close until we can open the Iraqi oil spigot which will drive the evil Saudis into poverty and perhaps bring them out into the open.

On the other hand, he can not openly brand Islam for what it is knowing that to do so would unleash the rightful wrath of the American population and lead to a bloodbath the likes of which the Islamanazis haven't seen since Richard the Lion Hearted waded in Saracen blood.

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

"On the other hand, he can not openly brand Islam for what it is knowing that to do so would unleash the rightful wrath of the American population and lead to a bloodbath the likes of which the Islamanazis haven't seen since Richard the Lion Hearted waded in Saracen blood."

Why not? You did say "rightful wrath"; it's not as if we're making up imagined Islamic offenses.

King Richard had the right idea. There are some people who simply can not be reasoned with.

[swarthyguy]

I still think the strategy is backwards.

We have bases on Saudi soil. USe them. It'd be simpler to occupy the Saudi oilfieds. And then after we have a oil protectorate in the middle of the Saudi desert, we could move into Iraq without needing bases. We decimate the Saudi royals and cut off all the financial and ideological support for the jihadis.

But that's just a pipe dream of mine. Ain't gonna happen, anyway.

Too many Americans are too tight with the Saudis.