Posted on 03/28/2007 8:28:48 AM PDT by saganite
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The Saudis are nothing but pragmatic. From the action in Congress they can no longer be sure the US will "take care" of Iran before we leave, so they need to play nice with Imanutjob. One more blow to America's reputation, courtesy of the Rats.
He's speaking to Arabs. They'd likely stone him if he said anything else.
The Saudis keep their friends close, and their enemies even closer. That's why James Baker is so "close" to them.
The Saudi's OBVIOUSLY see the writing on the wall now, and will position themselves to survive the coming slaughter....
We LOST the Propoganda War over Iraq, and millions will end up dead because of it...
lol....yeah, and Islam is a ROP.
How quickly the Saudis forget how we protected them when Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990.
The Saudis are our enemies, and no amount of Presidential smooching, handholding, Crawford red carpet treatments, and wishful thinking will change that.
Isn't this the country whose citizens actually brought down the World Trade Center? Apart from the oil, why we are friends with these people is beyond me.
Wonder what ticked him off
Well this explains why his excellency canceled the state dinner at the White House.
"Consider Saudi Arabia, the native home of most of the September 11th hijackers. The Saudis, unlike the Iraqis, have proven connections to al Qaeda. Saudi charities have funneled money to Islamic terrorist groups. Yet the administration insists on calling Saudi Arabia a good partner in the war on terror. Why? Because the U.S. has a longstanding relationship with the Saudi royal family, and a long history of commercial interests relating to Saudi oil. So successive administrations continue to treat the Saudis as something they are not: a reliable and honest friend in the Middle East." - Ron Paul, Feb 26th 2007
Maybe he found out that pork was on the menu.
"Wonder what ticked him off"
For the 60 years prior to 9/11, they were a strong ally. After 9/11, certain people (like Rudy Giuliani) stirred up anti-Saudi sentiments in the US. The political situation in SA is complex, with the ruling party distanced from the people and the Imams. They have an understanding where they are separate and leave each other alone. As a result, the Saud family had no knowledge of the 11 Saudi hijackers, but still got stereotyped as the guilty party in lots of people's eyes. Then we invaded a Sunni muslim country (Iraq) and gave the Shiite's lots of power when SA is predominantly Sunni. The Saud family's hold on power is weak and this threatened it greatly. They are thinking about their own interests.
SA would also be very unhappy if the US pulled out, as Democrats want. They figure expressing this "displeasure" to their domestic audience, however, will not have an impact on US policy at the moment.
That remark would be nicely punctuated by a missile bisecting his burnoose, launched by an overhead USAF drone.
But if he refused to attend a state dinner in DC and now he's saying this, it sounds like something ticked him off recently.
"He's speaking to Arabs. They'd likely stone him if he said anything else."
No, not really. The Saudis are completely duplicitous; or as a saying often attributed to native American's goes: "He speaks with a forked tongue."
The Saudis do not mind fanning the flames of anti-American sentiment in the region and then, in conversation with American representatives offering that negative sentiment as evidence for why America should agree with some position or other that the Saudis are taking.
The fact is that America has tried to be a good friend to the Saudis but the Saudis have never thought of themselves as a friend of the U.S.
The fact is that Gulf War I was fought because Saddam had placed his military machine within striking distance of the population centers of Saudi Arabia. Had Kuwait been located along the northern border region of Iraq, and not on the doorstep of the Saudis, the U.S. would not have "saved" Kuwait, the UN sanctions and "no fly" zones would never have been erected, and all the conditions regarding Iraq leading up to 2001-2003 would have provided no grounds for the current war, because, in fact, saving the Saudis was the real objective - not "saving" Kuwait.
We have been duped into "protecting" the duplicitous, radical Wahabi Saudis long enough.
No more.
"Saudi family had no knowledge?" Prince Salman, who was named by Abu Zubaydah as his chief Saudi contact, retired his top thoroughbred ,Point Given, on Aug. 30,2001 and made sure he was sold to a Kentucky breeding farm before the 9-11 attacks.
It's time for new leadership in Saudi Arabia.
The oil fields should be returned to their original American owners.
Saudis are highly attuned to US politics. They recognize the way the Democrat winds are blowing and are adjusting their policy accordingly.
Guess we can say goodbye to our influence in the Middle East.
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