Posted on 10/08/2004 9:28:39 PM PDT by neverdem
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Thank you for the ping! I may have never seen this. Now I have ammo for my Dem. friends.
Thanks for the link. I tell people about BugMeNot.com when I post from WaPo or the LA Times, but then I forget about it when I get directed to other stories on RKBA and don't want to release more personal info. Go figure. Maybe I'm getting CRS, can't remember sh@t.
Thanks for the link!
LOL!!!!!!
Carter’s Arab Funding May Color Israel Stance
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/28/112225.shtml
Sam Nunn's http://www.nti.org (nuclear threat initiative) - could it be receiving Saudi funding like Carter is? I see both the Carter Center and his NTI here:
http://islamabad.usembassy.gov/wwwhirc_alert0401.html
MUST VISIT link:
Daniel Pipes: Academia's Saudi Purse Strings
Documented incident of academic influence attempt.
List of people (naming names).
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14567
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189707/posts (swilhelm73 post)
Saudi-funded Mosque at WSU linked to WA Guardsman's defection
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/jm20040223.shtml
Saudis influence Bangladesh - and ruin it
http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/002659.html
I got a NOT FOUND message. I've never seen a www with a 2 after it. Please double check the link.
the princess of rags wouldn't run this without a reason. beware.
Thurs., July 15 at 3 p.m., Chief Editor of the largest English-language daily in the Middle East, The Arab News, Khaled al-Maeena, will discuss "Attacks on Americans in Saudi Arabia," U.S.-Saudi Relations, freedom of the press and Arab public opinion. . . . Wed., July 21 at 2 p.m., the former Prime Minister of Albania, Ilir Meta, will discuss his new Institute for Peace, Development and Integration. . . . Fri., July 23 at 3 p.m.
He also said Bush won Friday's debate.
From Robert Lacey, The Kingdom: Arabia & the House of Saud, 451ff
The Arab consensus was that Sadat had sold out the general cause to get back his own land, for through Egypt retained Sinai at Camp David, Israel kept Jerusalem. . .In November 1978 Iraq convened an Arab summit to frame sanctions against Sadat, and Fahad signed for Saudi Arabia. But the crown prince insisted that the sanctions should not be invoked until Sadat had finally signed the Camp David agreement as published. Perhaps Sadat could still squeeze out a deal which did more for Jerusalem and the Palestinians, and to give Egypt time. . .But as the details from Camp David became more solid through the winter of 1978-9 it became clear that the peace offered nothing that any Arab but an Egyptian could describe as honourable, while it was also radicalizing the Arab world, both governments and peoples, to a degree unseen since the October War. . .At this moment, the Shah fell. Before January 1979 Saudi Arabia was already getting worried about Jimmy Carter. His Westernized definition of how 'human rights' should be defined seemed arrogant. . .in Iran this confused idealism had both encouraged opposition to the Shah, and fatally undermined the man whom America had installed and maintained for twenty-five years as her best non-Jewish friend in the Middle East. It also undermined the wish of Fahad ibn Abdul Aziz to give the Camp David process some sort of life, for the crown prince had finally to agree with his brothers that an America that could not save the Shah could not save the Al Saud either. . .the failure in the following year of the military attempt to rescue the US hostages held by student militants in Iran was fuly to confirm the accuracy of this assessment. . .Fahad was mortified. . .on 31 March 1979 Saudi Arabia announced that it was severing diplomatic ties with Egypt, cutting off all aid and joining the general Arab boycott of the Sadat regime. The Kingdom had lined up with the 'wild men' of the Arab world.
Good eye.
Ha. I'm learning from you and Racilia.
LOL! Well, I missed that one and you caught it, so you must be a fast learner :)
I don't think there is proof that he destroyed the WMD's. But the Marines thought they still had them. My son was there when they went into Iraq. Before he came home a year later the Chaplin called the parents in to help us understand what they had been through.
While I was there one of the officers and I started talking. She was a nice lady. I asked her what her job was and she said that she had been trained to inform the parents of a Marines death. She said that they had trained 100's of extra men to help because they thought there would be thousands and thousands of body bags coming in. The Marine Corp thought the troops would have to face biological weapons. Thank God they didn't have to.
Thank you for your son's service, and I am so glad he made it back.
We'd have to question is role in lending legitimacy to the "reelection" of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela under those conditions. I have no doubt that a consumate tyrant couldn't persuade his people to put him back into office after buying their love with oil money.
But could Carter have had some help from the oil cartels to bring Venezuela into the anti-western fold?
We don't know that they have, or that they won't. But we're not sure.
Good question--I wasn't even thinking of Carter's Venezuelan policy. Interesting line of thought.
Two words: Bandar Mahshahr. By the way, http://www.nti.org is one of Turner's babies.
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