[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Bush adheres to the old Mafia axiom, "keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer"

I believe it works both ways.

Double agent Abdullah passing misinformation.

Abdullah strikes me as an intelligent man, not a dope. He can see the writing on the wall, and its not in arabic!!!!

[Husker24]

Geeze, for a while i actually thought Jordan might actually be a friend in the region.

[Diogenesis]

Perhaps this explains the look.

In DC, President George W. Bush entertains Jordan's Abdullah
who was upset that the US still supports democracies in the world, women's complete freedom,
and has even BEGUN the War for Enduring Freedom against terrorists like
his relative in Iraq, Saddam.

[DainBramage]

Ping a rooney, baby cakes.

[Faraday]

He also told the paper that when he meets Bush he will demand full backing for Secretary of State Colin Powell against the Pentagon officials who are "fixated on Iraq," and he warned that US action against Iraq would open a "Pandora's box" in the Middle East.

LOL. Bush makes the policy (with lots of advice), Abdullah. If you have a problem speak plainly to him.

This article seems to be a little bit of hyperventilation. The Jordanians were double-dealing during the Gulf War. They are weak and only survive by staying out of everyone's gun sights. As long as they don't encourage terrorism against Israel or the US, they'll be given a pass on playing footsie with Saddam. What Abdullah fears is that his kingdom will get washed away in the bow wake of Iraq falling. He may be right.

[yendu bwam]

Abdullah's just trying to save his throne. Like his father before him, he must hedge his bets. He is a weak king, in a region in which to the winner goes the spoils. He is scared, very scared. And he is also afraid of Saddam, a truly evil man who would not be afraid for a moment to eradicate Abdullah. It's a tough place to be in. Saving his kingship and his line is more important to him than what's right or wrong.

[Thud]

We might want Saddam to believe King Abdullah is his trusted friend.

[watchin]

What???? A muslim who is a treacherous, lying, two-faced, back-stabbing terrorist sympathizer?

Is there any other kind?

[SunStar]

[laconic]

Abdullah's family has a checkered past. His mother is English (I don't know what her profession was when she met his father, King Hussein). His great grandfather was the Mufti of Jerusalem, an open supporter of the Nazis. His sainted father, King Hussein, openly supported Saddam in the 1991 Gulf War and was married to Lisa Halaby, daughter of the superrich Najeeb Halaby. Lisa Halaby is a Princeton graduate who in a speech just last year enthralled the graduates with tales of her radical antiwar activities against US troops in Vietnam while a student in the 1970s and how you had to take direct action to achieve radical social change. The "radical" Miss Halaby (now Queen Noor) is, of course, a noted clotheshorse who spends tens of thousands of dollars at French boutiques while many of her people live in abject poverty. Apparently, her "radical" instincts also weren't bothered in the slightest by her late husband's wipeout of thousands of Palestinian civilians living in Jordan (far more than the Israelis ever killed in 50 years) in what became known as Black September (September, 1970).

[snippy_about_it]

Aspen, Colorado, 30/7/2002, (Communication & Information Division - Royal Hashemite Court)
-- On the sidelines of his participation in the U.S. Fortune Foundation Conference on Tuesday, His Majesty King Abdullah met former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and discussed the deteriorating situation in the Palestinian areas and the tremendous Palestinian suffering under Israeli occupation.

The official website of King Abdullah

I was hoping, against hope, that this story of him leaking U.S. information was not true. I have been fond of King Abdullah as I was of his late father.

bummer :( Can none of them be trusted?

[dighton]

Hmmmmmmmmm.

[BJClinton]

Hassan, who was dumped by the late King Hussein as his successor just days before his death, is revered by many Iraqis as the most senior member of the Hashemite royal family

Perhaps we should help Hassan become the next king of Jordan.

[happygrl]

King Abudullah's true colors revealed.

[spetznaz]

This has just been said to be FAKE just this very moment by both the Pentagon and George W. Bush! It is not true.

According to the Pentagon it is due to 'some lower level guy trying to impress his girlfriend by disseminating such stuff.' That is what the Pentagon said (they actually included the 'girlfriend' statement).

GW on the other hand said it was a 'level 5 clearance person flexing his muscles.'

The Pentagon has already apologized to King Abdullah for the statements.

Now my question is this: first we get leaks to the media from congress! Now we are having people in the pentagon taking it upon themselves to spread statements just for the heck of it!!!!

What the heck is happening. I think Rumsfeld needs to get the guys in congress leaking plans, grab the guy spreading the lies, and then hand them over as traitors to the AG!

[Cacique]

Death to tyrants, kings and potentates.

We are Republicans, we should oppose any and all parasitic monarchies, whether in Europe or anywhere else.

[Stultis]

A senior INC leader, Dr. Ahmad Chalabi, said Abdullah was acting as "Saddam's lawyer in America... He defends Saddam and uses every opportunity to warn off any American attempt to help the Iraqi people liberate themselves."

Abdullah? Saddam's lawyer? Isn't that peacenik* Ramsey Clarke's job?

*Translating from the leftese: A "peacenik" is one who supports violent, militaristic insurgents; the blood-soaked, oppressive dictators they invariably install; and opposses any attempt to relieve or liberate their victims.