[risk]

I wonder how much this cost them.

[river rat]

Well! Isn't that precious...

Our former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia - has gone native on us..
He sounds more like a representative of the House of Saud..

If Saudi Arabia wishes to change their filthy image - they need to change their filthy behavior..

STOP - funding the Wahabbi sect lunatics.
START - arresting and PROSECUTING the militant clerics.
STOP - financing Mosques around the world that teach hate and recruit terrorists.
START - pruning the family tree of all the militant lunatics.
Etc, etc, etc.....

Being a realistic man, I doubt any of this will happen.

It will not be long, before Saudi Arabia is recognized as a fully compliant and supportive partner of our enemy...Militant Islam and the lunatics attempting to implement their will on the world.

That makes Saudi Arabia our enemy, by President Bush's description of our enemy..

If this "former Ambassador" is any indication of the level of intellect in our Foreign Service, I can understand why our enemies have such contempt for the United States... This guy comes across as a real clymer...

Someone needs point out - that Militant Islam is the enemy.
Militant Islam springs from the Wahabbi sect of Islam.
Wahabbi sect is centered in Saudi Arabia and funded by the House of Saud...

It's really as simple as that..

Semper Fi

[goldstategop]

Its the Saudi brand of Islam and despotic rule that denies freedom to women and religious minorities no amount of glossy public relations can prettify. If its still ----, its still ---- no matter what the pro-Saudi apologists and defenders of the regime call it. And never forget, this was the land from which 15 of the 19 9-11 terrorists came.

[Alouette]

“They ask one simple question: ‘What wrong did we do to Saudi Arabia that they should do such a thing to us?’”

No, stupid. They ask THIS simple question:

WHY THE %$*& HASN'T THE US BOMBED THIS ENEMY INTO WHIMPERING, CRINGING SUBMISSION???

[swarthyguy]

The best money can buy.

And Aschcroft the closet antiSaudi. Good.

[WaterDragon]

The Saudis are so duuuuumb if they think we don't know they've bought and paid for tons of people like this 'ex-envoy.'

This is the Saudis' first response to the president noting in his SOTU that our 'friends' better start acting like friends.