SAUDIS TELL U.S. FORCES TO GET OUT

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

[weikel]

Thats why I would be favor of Saddam occupying the country for a few months. Let Saddam exterminate the Wahabbi sect then make him pull out one way or another.

[alphadog]

Long term, we don't need their oil...never did...but we need the Alaskan pipeline to pump 100% instead of 60% and stack a second pipe on top which it was designed to have... uncap our wells etc. Don't believe the crap about not having enough oil in this nation...we do

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

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

Let us see, the state department says one thing and the commie Guardian says something else, and there is no evidence one way or the other. Who to believe, the commies or our government, what a puzzlement!

[gfactor]

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

keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

[hoot2]

"SAUDIS TELL U.S. FORCES TO GET OUT "

this is perfect....now, we should tell the u.n. to get out,
n go to "Ha'il", saudi arabia....
if only p.j. o'rourke was the press sec., he could get away with it, then say, "only kidding..."

[Physicist]

The enemy states are in green and yellow!

Uh, they're all green and yellow.

You voted for Buchanan, I'll bet.

[Demidog]

Good. I'm sorry it has to be under such circumstances. But I hope we listen and get out. We've most certainly overstayed.

[dread78645]

You can always rely on those screaming Guardian headlines to misrepresent the facts.

. . . and that the kingdom may soon request that the American presence . . .

Spot on. The Guardian is trying to spin the future.

My 5 year prediction:

US forces in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, & Kuwait.
House of Saud in Switzerland sharing quarters with Saddam Hussein.
An Iranian counter-revolution. New government modeled on the Turkish system.
Israel still the target of Arab hate (and so it goes). . .

[Rubber Duckie]

Screw Saddam. Iraq was once a part of Turkey in the Ottoman Empire days. Turkey would do a better job of ruling it. Turkey is a NATO ally and would allow us use of their bases in their Iraq province.

[RLJVet]

I guess they really want to be a province of Iraq.

Observe how the Saudis behaved since summer 1990, when then Sec.'s Cheney and Baker started negotiating with them over this possible scenario. Some believe the Saudis actually do struggle with this choice - U.S. or Hussein.
People dwell on our not having assassinated Hussein instead of at least one other important outcome of the Gulf War - that the Spitoon Clintoon administration should have led us out of our dependency on Mideast oil.
This on again off again story over the last few days do they want us or don't they - it is no different from the way the Saudis have been in at least the past 10 years. We are nuts for depending on them.

[RLJVet]

off italics, off!

[DugwayDuke]

Any bets how long before Justin Romandado runs an extra using this for another diatribe from Antiwar.com?

[nocommies]

so be it, id give the saudis a big "F YOU!" sayonara baby!! dont let our bombs hit you on the ass on OUR way out! YOU'RE WITH IS, OR YOU'RE AGAINST US!! the saudis clearly choose the side of the "arab world" and they will have to live/die with their choice. i believe it will happen, they will ask us to leave, and we should, gladly. the ungrateful miserable camel jockeys have short memories. we're there to protect their sorry butts!! if we werent there in 1991, after kuwait, it was saudi arabia for iraq. maybe we should get out and let the morons kill each other. we'll just have to annihilate them all from turkey's bases and all of those other countries up north there, amereareaizakamakakastan and whatever else they are. didnt rummy go there a few weeks ago? i say he did! he wasnt there to share a ham dinner with them for christmas.

[MJY1288]

The Prince Sultan Airbase is a huge facility, (Built by Bin Laden Construction) Not to mention very accomidating. Today I heard almost every branch of our Government shoot this report down like an Iraqi flown Mig29. What the Saudi's are doing is playing politics with the uncontrollable's they are harbouring. In other words, Paul Begala is their new spin doctor

[CreekerFreeper]

Haven't you figured it out. Red China will begin moving in at their invitation to 'protect' their oil and their interests against the U.S.

[Jonathon Spectre]

Good. While we're pulling out our troops let's pull out all our damned foreign aid and drill in the ANWR and anywhere else we can so we can stop buying oil from these faithless "friends". What do you call a country whose most modern institution is thirteenth-century caliphate government? Saudi Arabia.

[mrustow]

The US is reluctant to withdraw its 4,500 troops from the Prince Sultan air base, south of Saudi's capital Riyadh, because it could be perceived as a propaganda victory for Osama bin Laden, who frequently protested at the presence of non-believers so close to the main Muslim holy sites.

Or it could be perceived as a confirmation that this is a war of Islam vs. America (read: the West).

[Overtaxed]

Saudi's are such cowards. No wonder one of the world's most horrendous terrorist was born and bred there. Shame on those short sighted spoiled royal jerks.

Now I'm glad that reporter guy asked the Saudi guy about a Saudi prince running from Saddam like a scalded dog during Desert Storm.

[Bush2000]

The US secretary of state, Colin Powell, who is in Nepal, denied the Saudis wanted a withdrawal: "There has been no discussion of such an issue."

The Saudis would make an attractive target. They have no military. They have plenty of oil. And they're surrounded by rotten fascist Arab scumbags ... Would you kick out the U.S. under these same circumstances?

[mrustow]

Carter abandoned the Shah of Iran. The House of Saud can't possibly be so stupid as to volunteer for the same outcome.

There's an old Arab saying: No one ever went broke, underestimating the intelligence of the House of Saud.