Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Saudi Arabia is still the Bush Regime's daddy...
Here's what ole Dicky Cheney talked about with the Saudis a few weeks ago:
Here's an interesting twist to all of this....the Saudi Ambassador has abruptly resigned his postion, because he wants to spend more time with his family. Yeah right. Something is going on and I don't think it's going to be pretty.
Saudis Give U.S. a Grim What IfRead the rest of the article...HERE.
By HELENE COOPER
Published: December 13, 2006
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 — Saudi Arabia has told the Bush administration that it might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in any war against Iraq’s Shiites if the United States pulls its troops out of Iraq, according to American and Arab diplomats.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia conveyed that message to Vice President Dick Cheney two weeks ago during Mr. Cheney’s whirlwind visit to Riyadh, the officials said. During the visit, King Abdullah also expressed strong opposition to diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran, and pushed for Washington to encourage the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, senior Bush administration officials said.
The Saudi warning reflects fears among America’s Sunni Arab allies about Iran’s rising influence in Iraq, coupled with Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. King Abdullah II of Jordan has also expressed concern about rising Shiite influence, and about the prospect that the Shiite-dominated government would use Iraqi troops against the Sunni population.
A senior Bush administration official said Tuesday that part of the administration’s review of Iraq policy involved the question of how to harness a coalition of moderate Iraqi Sunnis with centrist Shiites to back the Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
The Saudis have argued strenuously against an American pullout from Iraq, citing fears that Iraq’s minority Sunni Arab population would be massacred. Those fears, United States officials said, have become more pronounced as a growing chorus in Washington has advocated a draw-down of American troops in Iraq, coupled with diplomatic outreach to Iran, which is largely Shiite.
Here's an interesting twist to all of this....the Saudi Ambassador has abruptly resigned his postion, because he wants to spend more time with his family. Yeah right. Something is going on and I don't think it's going to be pretty.
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Well that certainly explains all the new rhetoric, talking points and catch phrases from oaa the Reich Wing idiots and spin meisters like Coulter and Rove, like the Surrender Monkey's and the spin that liberals want to talk with Iran..........looks like the Saudi's are yanking the Neo Cons leash now.
Yes they are Mike and when Saudi Arabia beckons the VP...we know something is up. The Saudis are supposed to be "our friends", so how will Bush explain to America that our friends are now going to start financing those in Iraq who hate us? Huh?
I can't wait for the Decider to get back from his "listening tour" to find out. Bastard he is.
I can't wait for the Decider to get back from his "listening tour" to find out. Bastard he is.
Looks like the Saudi's and Israelis might just be determining that the Idiot has screwed up the Middle east so badly, that they will have to get along to unscrew it.......
That is telling.
Juan Cole has the lowdown.
Saudi Arabia is equally frantic about the possibility of a nuclear Iran, and is moreover apoplectic that the US delivered Baghdad into the hands of Iraqi Shiite fundamentalists allied with Iran. Saudi Arabia fears Hizbullah in Lebanon as an Iranian cat's paw in the Arab world. The Khomeinists of Iran and south Lebanon believe that Islam is incompatible with monarchy (Khomeini said, "there are no kings in Islam.")
Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and (de facto) the 14 March Bloc in Lebanon are ranged against Iran, Shiite Iraq, Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas. Neither Israel nor Saudi Arabia can openly admit to the tacit alliance for fear of anger from their own publics because of objectionable parties to it. But this is how things are shaking out.
Now the Saudis are openly saying that this new Cold War in the region could turn hot. If you don't own a bicycle, I'd buy one, because a regional war of the sort Saudi Arabia said it feared would potentially cut off 20 percent of the world's petroleum.
It must be bad if the Saudis and Israels have to ally themselves to clean up the Idiots mess.
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That is telling.
Juan Cole has the lowdown.
Saudi Arabia is equally frantic about the possibility of a nuclear Iran, and is moreover apoplectic that the US delivered Baghdad into the hands of Iraqi Shiite fundamentalists allied with Iran. Saudi Arabia fears Hizbullah in Lebanon as an Iranian cat's paw in the Arab world. The Khomeinists of Iran and south Lebanon believe that Islam is incompatible with monarchy (Khomeini said, "there are no kings in Islam.")
Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and (de facto) the 14 March Bloc in Lebanon are ranged against Iran, Shiite Iraq, Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas. Neither Israel nor Saudi Arabia can openly admit to the tacit alliance for fear of anger from their own publics because of objectionable parties to it. But this is how things are shaking out.
Now the Saudis are openly saying that this new Cold War in the region could turn hot. If you don't own a bicycle, I'd buy one, because a regional war of the sort Saudi Arabia said it feared would potentially cut off 20 percent of the world's petroleum.
It must be bad if the Saudis and Israels have to ally themselves to clean up the Idiots mess.
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