SAUDIS TELL U.S. FORCES TO GET OUT

The Guardian ^ | 01-18-02 | The Guardian

[Calpublican]

How about annexing North and South Saudolina?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This is a bogus headline. Saudi probably is considering it, though. When we're done with a few other countries, we should come back and kick their butts. I'd like to see King Fahd -- actually King Fraud -- get a Tomahawk missile right up his backside.

[RMrattlesnake]

Of corse thay do. That is were the al quaida is based and most likely were bin laden is hidding.

[M. Thatcher]

I don't think the Guardian is a reliable source of anything except anti-America propaganda.

Actually, they're not even reliable at that. Their statement:

the American presence - a product of the Gulf war

is incorrect. There has been an American presence there since 1946.

[Tea42]

"...the people of Saudi Arabia stand in friendship with the United States".

I wonder how many such ads have been seen in Saudi Arabia during this timeframe, or ever, for that matter.

On September 11 the Saudis showed clearly enought that they are not really our friends. Let's make the fuel cell the kind of important project that John Kennedy made of the space program. "By the end of this decade..."

[chantal7]

I think it's stupid of the Muslims to feel so threatened and insecure that they won't let "infidels" enter Mecca or Medina nor do they want us in Saudi, nor even the Middle East. Riyadh, Bagdad, Tehran, Jeddah, all other places in the world but Mecca and Medina are not truthfully holy ground to their religion. They're just like greedy little kids and they need to grow up.

Their position on this matter is absolutely ridiculous and what they REALLY want is for there to be no "infidels" on earth and that is their version of Islam's true goal and want.

I can't tell you how white hot angry their stupid childish position makes me everytime I hear it.

I really think that to stop their nonsense we'll one day have to go in and either take over Mecca and Medina and open up those towns to the people of the world or else bomb them back to glassy desert sand.

They also need to learn to base their God and religion on the truth for once instead of on their wet dreams and envious hatred.

They seem to be anal retentive and anal compulsive as well as being retromigent reactionaries.

*spits to the side* Worthless, childish animals is all they are now.

P.S. The above is for all Muslims except for the good Muslims, you know who you are (paraphrasing Mark Twain).

[VA Advogado]

This is breaking news? Dude the world's been talking about this for at least TWO days.

[demsux]

With all that said, it wouldn't break my heart one little bit to tell them to "respectfully, f**k off" and pull out en masse. Then, we watch 'em fall to internal forces or Hussein or........whoever. THEN, we come back in and clean house and take over that freakin' lake of oil that they're floating atop.

Exactly my thoughts.

[DainBramage]

Actually, if you beleive in what the Bible says, our support for Israel has been a scource of blessing to our country for a long time and,

IMO, the main reason we are as prosporous as we are today.

[RightOnline]

"We don't owe them a thing. They have been nothing but a thorn in our butts since 47."

Speak for yourself, bubba.

[VaBthang4]

No.....we like your bases just fine. Deal with it!

[gfactor]

funny. a US withdrawl from saudi is one of OBL's stated goals.

[zog]

--wild card. India and pakistan conflict is still on the table at the 50/50 level. china is pushing for the islamics at this point, for their own purposes. china is also the up and coming world petroleum market of note, not quite the us level yet, but within ten years or so. Saudi sells oil for a living. Fatcat saudis like their jobs. they need to sell more oil, plus have a country will sell them anything military they got the cash for without getting "approval' from some foreign congress. their dude in the street there has no use for the US or the west in general anymore, except as a consumer target that is increasingly going elsewhere for oil. Russia has just announced they will be competing with saudis in the market, and sell to the west. What to do if you are a saudi fatcat? One answer is to gradually sever ties with the west and concentrate on china and the other islamic nations, and let japan in on it as well, if they will play ball and stay neutral. I'm guessing they will kill 4 birds with one stone, so this article might be right on. Their only gamble is maybe with iraq, but they will use iran to play them off with. And if they cut ties to the US more, even completely, then what's to stop them getting their own nukes, now that pakistan has them, and china and north korea is willing to sell? With nukes and missiles, which they could afford easily, they might consider themselves strong enough to remain stable and intact, without any US presence, plus, they can score a lot more brownie points in the islamic world by being even more anti israel that they are now, and the fatcats will still retain the option of bugging out if they have to. Cash (and gold of which they have literally tons) still walks on this planet.

[boris]

As I said, we should give them what they want.

Let us pull out. Leave smoking rubble where "our" base was.

Send a note to Saddam Hussein that we will not lift a finger to save the Saudis, should he happen to invade.

Maybe build a 4-lane highway to the border with Iraq.

--Boris

[weikel]

Our small garrison is Saudi Arabia is mixed with the incompetent but more numerous Saudi forces if we don't have that token garrison there we don't have to worry about them being used as human shields when and( and I hope we do) if we invade the magic kingdom.

[tallhappy]

Freepers I want some reaction to this. I don't know what to make of this.

It's the Guardian, an ultra-leftist newspaper.

[stboz]

The Saudi are our enemies, and the US shouldn't have a base there.

Sure we should. We've paid fifty times what their freakin' oil is worth. The rest belongs to us.

It's time to pitch the sand diggers out in their just desserts. Anybody want to screw with us? Face the consequences.

[Lent]

Relations between the US and Saudi Arabia, Washington's closest Arab ally, have been severely strained since September 11

Now why would this be? Wouldn't the death of thousands of men, women and children by terrorists engender great sympathy and a single purpose to destroy this kind of terrorism? Not if you believe the Saudis are funding the Pan Arab Islamic agenda including the Jihad.