Posted on 05/16/2008 11:02:41 AM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
all yur congre$$ are belong to House of Saud
As much as I think the House of Saud are the direct descendants of Hell, we probably do need a counterweight to Iran who by 2013 could have total dominace of the region.
I’m just sayin’
I always felt that Bush was not like the other politicians. That he was bigger than all that. This past year, I’ve been so disappointed.
We should have done that a long time ago. Then maybe we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now.
Carolyn
Dumb, dumb move. This will only benefit our enemies - those who want to topple the House of Saud,
Why do some Freepers want to make enemies out of our longtime allies like the Saudis? Come on now, some of you sound like DUmmies.
"Get the bucket!"
The Israelis must just be pleased as punch...
I think by the end of 2009...most of us will awaken to realize that the Saudis have the nuke...and probably have had it for three or four years. As for the missiles? I’m betting that they had some real good friends in South Africa who helped them along the way.
And somewhere along this way...we ought to ask the administration to explain which idiots in the CIA and US military knew this and why they didn’t say anything publicly.
I don’t understand the opposition. One of the methods of nuclear non-proliferation is to offer contracts for enriched uranium for operating nuclear plants. We put the rods in, and take them out, under the auspises of the world nuclear body.
That way, nobody can build a bomb, nobody puts together their own infrastructure to manufacture enriched uranium.
If SA has nuclear power, that frees up more oil for the world markets.
If they ever decide to seize the plants to get nuclear material, we blow them up — we’ll know right where they are.
SA is right about oil. There is no shortage of oil, demand is meeting supply. Pumping more oil won’t in itself lower the price, unless the speculators start getting scared that they’ll be sitting on deliveries of actual oil with no where to sell them.
Meanwhile, since the senate voted to prohibit drilling, oil has hit a new record twice.
And they want to blame it on SA not pumping more oil?
“This agreement will pave the way for Saudi Arabia’s access to safe, reliable fuel sources for energy reactors and demonstrate Saudi leadership as a positive non-proliferation model for the region,” it said.
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Wait! I checked to see if this was from the Onion. Why in the h3!! would they need nuclear power when they are sitting on an ocean of oil!?
Would you really believe any answer they gave?
On the other hand: can we stop them from buying the entire technology from North Korea or Russia?
I doubt that they have the nuke. What we’re doing though, I bet, is we’re giving them reactor technology so that when they get the bomb, it will look like they had the opportunity to build it from scratch. But the reality will be that we (or Israel) simply crated up a few spare nukes and shipped them off to Ryahd so that the Saudis would not get pushed around by the Iranians. That way, they have the bomb, but not the technology. We might even charge them a billion dollars to make it worth our while.
Some of you need to get your underwear re-arranged. This is about low-enriched uranium, which CAN NOT be used to make a bomb. And the reason for it is to keep them from acquiring the uranium enrichment technology that COULD be used to produce high-enriched uranium for making bombs.
We would be happy to do exactly the same for Iran, North Korea, or any other pre-nuclear state, if that state would agree to abandon enrichment.
Think before you go off on a rant!
Pardon me, but I don't speak Arabic. "Beyotch" is Arabic for "recreational pet goat"?
They won’t help us. I see no reason we should do anything for them.
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