The Saudi War on George Bush

The American Thinker ^ | March 10, 2004 | Ed Lasky

[joesnuffy]

Nobody wants a cessation of Saudi oil exports which could cripple America economically, and disrupt our military readiness

Pretty much be an attack on our national interest and national security....I say let them go for it....

[SolutionsOnly]

Well, good. Perhaps this is a permananet fracture in our indefensible 'cozy', preferential. and 'look the other-way' foreign relations with the two-faced Saudis.

[tomahawk]

This article is the truth. I agree with the author.

Kerry is the best ally of the Jihadists. He must be defeated.

[BB2]

If the Saudi's do this, G.W. should use it as a campaign running point.

The U.S. economy should not be threatened by foreign interests. We should use this as an opportunity to emphasize more exploration and developement of energy resources.

We should open up A.N.W.A.R. for oil drilling, open more exploration in the Gulf and off the California coast. It can be done safely, with minimal risk to the environment, in order to secure energy independence until science and technology can discover cleaner, cheaper sources of energy for our needs.

We should also open up the low sulpher coal fields that the Clinton administration made off limits by illegal means declaring the area a national park/historic antiquity by executive order, bypassing normal proceedures mandated by law.

Maybe we can make the Saudi's think twice about blackmailing the U.S. with oil. The more independent we become, the less oil they can sell, the weaker their power and hold on the world becomes.

[DeuceTraveler]

I think Bush has been expecting this. He's steadily moved our dependancy of oil from Saudi to Venezuela, Mexico, Russia, and others.

[richardtavor]

That is exactly what is happening. An oil price of $35 per bbl makes no sense--especially when Iraqi oil is back to 3.2 MMBO per day. There should be a glut of oil, instead of a shortage. Would the Saudis do it? The last time was in 1973, when we supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War. I believe that is exactly what they are doing. I have been in the Oil Business for a long time--and am very aware that the Saudis view their production as a carrot and a stick--they ran the price down during the time of Bush 1 and Clinton (both to prop them up, and to try to destroy the American oil industry.) They have never been or never will be our friends.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

How have the Saudis acted to destroy George Bush’s political career? By using the “oil weapon” to torpedo the American economy over the next eight months

. . . it appears to be the case that the Saudis are engaged in a silent slow motion war with George W. Bush’s Administration, aimed at limiting his Presidency to a single term. If they continue with this plan, Republicans can take nothing for granted in November.

This is in fact the reverse of what the Saudis did for Reagan, after Reagan loudly declaimed that the Saudis had our support in their own military defense - and that policy was pivotal in simultaneously boosting our economy and subverting that of the (oil-exporting) Soviet Union.

We have an oil weapon of our own, for the short term and the long. In the long term Iraq has reserves in the same class as Saudi Arabia's, and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is therefore unlikely ever to be more valuable in the long run than it is right now, in the short term of the next few months. I said before, and I repeat,

When will we ever get beneficial use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, if not at a time when it will help us, and when we yet have good assurance that its depletion will not leave us excessively exposed to the Saudi oil weapon?

[RoseofTexas]

W can scream at the top of his lung all he wants, BUT if the media whores DO NOT report and blame the Saudis, the message is lost and the sheeple will blame W for the gas prices! You know this is one piece of GREAT news for the WHORES to use against W! They continue to blame him for EVERYTHING under the sun. So sad the pen is mightier than the truth in this case!

[Indie]

The Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bander bin Sultan,Hasan bin Sobar [doorman at the Oasis Hotel in New York part time] has boasted of his success in cultivating powerful Americans:.....

For all you Stooge fans!

[thoughtomator]

ping

[Charles Martel]

For all you Stooge fans!

Most appropriate, what with all the Saudi "Malice in the Palace".

[Mudboy Slim]

We need to open ANWR fer drilling...I realize it won't help much in the short-term, but we cannot continue to allow despotic regimes to have this much control over our economic future.

Good find...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

Worth reading...the steady rise in prices at the pump ain't no accident...MUD

[petitfour]

I have noticed since W has been president that oil prices go up everytime there is a tax refund. It happened in 2001 when there was a tax rebate. It happened last year when there was a tax rebate. It has happened this year when big tax refunds were returned to the middle class. Anything to slow the economy and any economic boom that could result from consumers putting their money in the market. But I'm just a housewife.

[Cicero]

I believe this is why Bush went after Iraq first rather than Iran and Syria--so we could confront the Saudis down the line with the Iraqi oil fields under our control. And it's one reason why the Saudis are supporting the sabotage in Iraq--to delay our efforts to rebuild Iraq's oil production.

Everything changed after 9/11. The House of Saud will inevitably fall, whether they like it or not. They have brought about their own destruction. Their one chance was to play ball with us in rounding up the terrorists, and they have absolutely refused to cooperate in any way.

Bush needs to reach out to Putin, who is divided on these matters. Putin will do much better with Bush as an ally against our common enemy, Islamic terrorism. A weakened United States cooperating with the EuroWeasels under John Kerry is not in Russia's long-range interest. Russia has helped us before by increasing oil exports. Hopefully they will do so again. The timing is crucial.

[Little Ray]

Gee. That would be a brilliant thing to with an American Army right next door in Iraq. I wonder how long it would take to route the Saudi military and grab the oil fields, refineries and terminals?

[Mudboy Slim]

"I wonder how long it would take to route the Saudi military and grab the oil fields, refineries and terminals?"

It'd be a matter of days, but would be a public relations disaster. The best thing we can do is get the word out on this, as I don't believe American voters will take to kindly to foreign despots manipulating our national elections. Simulataneously, we must reach out to alternate oil sources, and let the sheiks know that once we learn to get by without them, our dependence on them will not be easily reestablished.

FReegards...MUD

[marron]

Good article. Parallels some of the things we've been saying.

[Dane]

The saudis want to torpedo a peaceful democracy in Iraq. Iraq could produce as much oil as Saudi Arabia. As long as saddam was building palaces, not building the Iraqi oil infrastructure, and not threatening Saudi Arabia, the sauid's were happy.

Now with the double threat of a free and prosperous Iraq and a competitior to the saudis as the "swing" oil producer, the house of saud has decided to do it's best to try to defeat Bush, IMO. Kerry will abandon Iraq and the saudi's hope that Iraq will go back into a "controlled chaos" that will not threaten the house saud rule or become a rival oil producer.