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To: stm
Am I reading this wrong? "The Kingdom" had no universities prior to 1957?

Not wrong at all. Within living memory, the Saudis were poor ignorant savage tribesmen living in tents and herding camels. Then the Arab American Oil company came along and found they were sitting on oceans of oil. Now they are rich ignorant savage tribesmen living in palaces and beheading Christians.

-ccm

54 posted on 08/20/2006 9:18:21 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order)
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To: ccmay

Come listen to my story ‘bout a man named Achmed
A poor Bedouin barely kept his family fed.
And then one day he was shootin’ at some Jews,
And up through the sand came a bubblin’ crude.
Oil that is, Persian Perrier,
Kuwait Kool-aid,
Saudi Sodie.

66 posted on 08/21/2006 10:12:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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