Posted on 08/05/2002 8:21:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A briefing given last month to a top Pentagon advisory board described Saudi Arabia as an enemy of the United States, and recommended that U.S. officials give it an ultimatum to stop backing terrorism or face seizure of its oil fields and its financial assets invested in the United States.
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The Saudis are a vicious, pathetic nation who deserve to have their existence wiped out.
Read post #52 for further arguments.
So, so nice to see that line in print.
Relations with the Saudis, Kuwaitis, etc. will remain nominally friendly, and there won't be any nuking of Mecca or any of the other insane suggestions floating around on this thread.
But we understand the reason the Saudis and Kuwaitis oppose U.S. action against Saddam Hussein - when we depose Saddam Hussein, we will have control Iraq's oil fields, and that will hurt their cartel.
As the supply increases from the Iraqi fields, the prices of oil will drop, and that will help the U.S. economy while reducing our dependence on those other countries for our energy supply.
Now, there could be a temporary shortage during the conflict. It would have been useful to have gotten rid of Hugo Chavez before the action begins, but that's the breaks. So before the conflict begins, the strategic reserves will be replenished at least to the levels that existed prior to Clinton's depletion of them before the 2000 election. We will draw down from that, and Saddam will be gone before the reserve is empty.
Once the U.S. has control of the Iraqi supply, it will be time to deal with the Israeli-Palestinian problem without the threat of an Arab oil boycott that could devastate the economy and put a Democrat back in the White House.
After Saddam is gone, it will be possible to start bringing a sense of order and rationality to the Middle East.
Is that for real? How many is "several"?
I've been hoping some of those really militant Saudi Wahabi clerics would be dispatched to meet Allah....
Many Freepers ---- 48 hours
Most Freepers ---- 45 days
Most Americans --- 90 days
The US gummint with 8456 gazillon computers, 2345 "analysts" and intelligence experts, the Library of Congress, the FBI, the NSA, the CIA, the State Department, Military Intelligence, Spy planes, several copies of the koran --- almost a year.
What's wrong with this picture?
This can't even be a bad joke.
Saudi Arabia does not allow tourism.
A redundancy, albeit an real one.
There is no possible hope of bringing a sense of order or rationality to the Middle East.
The only possibilities are containment or destruction.Reality sometimes sucks, doesn't it?
New York Muslim tourists...
They seem to just hate to take taxis into Manhattan.
No, those are not the only possibilities.
Realities change. Don't underestimate President Bush's ability to formulate a good plan and get positive results. A year or two from now, the reality could be quite different.
This time around, barring a WMD attack on Kuwait, their production will probably be increased, at the behest of the Americans. Production of the emirates will also be increased. That leaves Saudi Arabia. They need the money, it is doubtful that they can afford to drop their production.
The USAF and the USN will be tasked with keeping the Gulf open to shipping, a job they did ten years ago with fewer bases and worse logistics. The strategic reserve will be around to pick up the slack in case a tanker or two is caught in the crossfire. Don't bet on an oil shortage.
No they're not. They are, however, scared sh**less. They've been trying to out fundy the fundies, in order to steal their thunder, but the threat still lies outside the regime in Wahabi nutcases. Clearly, this approach isn't going to work in the long term (especially if American buildings keep on getting blown up by Saudis), and we've got to make that clear to Prince Abdullah. Either he declares war on Saudi radicalism, or we find someone else who will.
Once we've taken the oil fields, and hung all the sheiks and mullahs, the danger will come from the corrupting influence of all that power and control over wealth will have on the US government
Then again, they're pretty far along that path even without the oil fields
If we bombed the crap out of their revenue generators they'd fall flat on their turbaned heads. When's the last time you picked up an article in the store that had "Made In Saudi Arabia" stamped on it?
These people are incapable of doing anything other than sending insane muslims out to commit suicide in the hope of nailing 50 virgins as reward for their martyrdom.
They also rape many female children.
Lord, I hope so! It's about damn' time someone spoke the TRUTH about the Saudi's!!
Every mosque built around the world is a safe haven for Terrorists. I call it a safe haven because every country in the world "recognizes" Islam as a religion when it is truly a cult of death, no better than that of Jim Jones and other cults like it.
In addition, every mosque built around the world is built with - SAUDI MONEY. The reality is, Saudi's pay to have these mosque's built knowing that they will be used as terrorist havens and in addition, to gather funds for funding terrorist training camps. So called "Islam" as a religion is a despot cult, with no finances or means to finance the building of these mosques. The Wall Street Journal documented this several months back (and I'll post it later since it's on my h.d. @ home) for all the world to see.
The Saudi's ARE our #1 enemy. Followed closely by China and North Korea, then Iraq.
If we want to strike at the HEART of terrorism which are in fact the MONEY used to fund and sponsor it, we'd seize the oil fields in Saudi Arabia that they STOLE from us via their own "Nationalization" of them back in the late 60's-early 70's and simply froze their assets here in the U.S.
It's time to implement the "kick their a$$ and take their gas" policy. They've truly got it coming.
However, I would bet upon a panicked surge in prices for a while. The market price of oil would rise due to traders' fears of a supply interruption.
Give them a few weeks, and prices will come back down to "normal." (I'm still waiting to see gasoline for 99.9 cents per gallon like it was when I was younger...)
The USN will keep the tankers safe. There is no doubt of that.
Since we're planning ahead, there shouldn't be a major supply problem.
But there could be a shape spike in the price of gasoline for a few weeks.
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