[Pokey78]

Ping.

[weikel]

Maybe Bush should weaken you Saudis and I mean fatally.

[onedoug]

What an islamist crock!

[aomagrat]

Saudi Arabia's senior intelligence official today called Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, "a man of peace"

[willyboy22]

YOU ARE WITH US OR AGAINST US.

[habs4ever]

The Saudis are stalling here and had better make up their minds sooner rather than later.And, they shouldn't issue ANY type of warning to the US unless its of another pending terrorist attack.

[mvonfr]

felt considerable sympathy for the cause of the Saudi-born terrorist Osama bin Laden, even though they rejected the attacks in New York and Washington.

Translation: most Saudis think that only four terrorist teams were not enough.

[smith288]

Umm...what will they do? Bomb the abandoned US embassies after we leave them for the rats?

[Dialup Llama]

A classified American intelligence report taken from a Saudi intelligence survey in mid-October of educated Saudis between the ages of 25 and 41 concluded that 95 percent of them supported Mr. bin Laden's cause, according to a senior administration official with access to intelligence reports.

This bears repeating.

[Southern Federalist]

These Arab big shots sure do a lot of puffing and blowing and threatening, don't they? And I love the part where he threatens us that big, bad Saddam will be "waiting for us" if we try anything. A US attack on Saddam will only strengthen him? I wonder what color is the sky in his universe. Even not having the base in Saudi Arabia would only inconvenience us, not make the outcome uncertain if we were determined.

His tyrant-family admiration for the big shot tyrant down the street couldn't be clearer, though, could it? I mean, the Saud are just rich fat kid bullies but Saddam - now there's a real tough guy, got a gang and everything.

Hey Nawwaf, I accuse Arafat of not being a man of peace. Nyah, nyah.

[kezekiel]

In a wide-ranging interview, Prince Nawwaf bin Abdul Aziz, the kingdom's director of the intelligence service, also acknowledged that after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the vast majority of Saudi young adults felt considerable sympathy for the cause of the Saudi-born terrorist Osama bin Laden, even though they rejected the attacks in New York and Washington.

Young adults who, I might add, were taught in Saudi schools and mosques, and who have been weaned on a diet of state-run media. Tell you what, Prince: you made your little monsters. You keep them in their cages.

[Dog Gone]

Very interesting interview and worthy of some serious discussion. However, the thread will be deluged with people making brief anti-Saudi rants making that difficult for awhile.

[gcraig]

On the Saudi side, Saudis said in interviews that they expected support from the United States and instead felt that they had been isolated and branded as terrorists.

The truth hurts doesn't it. Saudi Arabia is terrorism.

[tonyinv]

Asked by an American journalist what message he would send to Mr. Bush about the war on terrorism, he replied: "My advice to President Bush is to pursue the interests of the United States. This will solve everything."

This is clearly a threat. He obviously thinks he has us by the b*lls becuase of the oil. I suspect President Bush may be holding a few extra cards in this game.

The one thing the "prince" may not have calculated is the fact the we now have a President in office who understands the stakes and has a much larger goal in mind than just the Middle East, the longterm security of United States of America. It might come as shock to the dictators in that region that we are now truly going to be looking out for our own interests. They may find that they no longer qualify for that distinction.

It's funny they present the survey of the "educated males" as some sort or reason why we shouldn't back away from Arafat. I suggest that the survey and statements from the "intellegence" guy only stregthen the belief that they are not on our side and wont be in the future.

One thing about President Bush we've all witnessed and been told is, he demands loyalty, honesty, and actions above words. He's about results, it's clear that our Middle East policies have failed and require a massive rethinking. This is the time to to do just that.

Without the oil hanging over our heads, what does this region have? Nothing, without our thirst for oil, Saudia Arbia would be another Afghanistan. Isreal can take care of herself, if we would only get out the way.

When the fallout settles from the pending conflicts and the historians look back on President Bush's 8 years in office, they will write that this President solved the Middle East problem, like President Reagan before him with the Cold War, with steadfast determination, decisive action, and uncomprimisnig beliefs.

[FrostFire]

Don't Weaken Arafat, Saudi Warns Bush

Which Saudi? The one with our airbase on it? The one that we can blow to smithereens at the drop of a daisy? THAT Saudi?

[LibKill]

To perdition with them and AraPIGfat.

[LibWhacker]

The sooner we have all out war with the mohammedans, the better.

[BJClinton]

"a man of peace"

It would seem he forgot about Lebanon and Jordan.

[Cicero]

I don't think Bush would possibly consider mounting a direct attack against the Saudis even though they are probably at the very heart of the terrorist problem. But he could easily WITHDRAW SUPPORT, watch the Saudi royal family get thrown out on their asses or assassinated, and then send in troops to stabilize a dangerous situation.

It's crystal clear that the Saudis have no intention of cooperating with us in the war against terror, not even to the extent of sharing financial records or intelligence data.

As I have said before, the only practical solution to the Saudi problem in the long run is to break the country in two, and separate the holy places from the oil. It's simply too dangerous to have the same arrogant, corrupt people in control of the world economy AND the sacred pilgrim sites of a billion Muslims.

[EternalHope]

In a blunt criticism of President Bush, Saudi Arabia's senior intelligence official today called Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, "a man of peace"...

Yasir Arafat has never been a man of peace.

People who say he is are simply liars, or else define "peace" as killing everyone except Muslims.