[AmericanBabe]

Don't you think that Saudi should be allowing us to use their bases? After all, if we hadn't protected them 12 years ago, they'd all be speaking Iraqi now.

[Archangelsk]

Iraqis speak Arabic like the Saudis. You're probably thinking of Iranians who speak Farsi.

[onedoug]

We should state the obvious, and stage from Israel.

[El Gato]

After all, if we hadn't protected them 12 years ago, they'd all be speaking Iraqi now. >

While I know what you mean, Saudi's and Iraqis, along with all the rest of the Arabs, from all along the African shore of the med to the western shore of the Persian Gulf, speak Arabic. I imagine they speak with different accents, colloquiallisms and such, but they can understand each other at least as well as Brooklynites and Texans can.