[MadIvan]

Anyone care to still say the Saudis are our friends? Bueller? Bueller?

Regards, Ivan

[GOPJ]

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[Teacup]

I'm shocked!(NOT!) Poor thing, someone duped the Princess...............more like the Saudis have been duping us.

[rmvh]

Re your # 1.

No...They are not our friends....They are run by a weak and conniving royal family that finds itself in danger from religious fanatics should they become friendly to the west.....So instead, they are complicit in funding terrorism.

Perhaps the US and England should just ignore the pathetic UN, invade and take them over, letting the "royals" each be given 72 virgins in this life, taking away any governing power and thus solve a major portion of the problem?

The only positive thing they do is vary oil producation to keep world supply relatively stable as other producers increase or decrease supply.