Saudis tell Bush to moderate Israel support or face "Grave Consequences"!

The Muslim News ^ | 25-04-2002 | By Randall Mikkelsen

[vannrox]

"...Osama bin Laden, a Saudi-born exile blamed by the United States for the Sept. 11 attacks, has said closing the bases was a priority in his campaign to drive the United States from the region..."

[Wonder Warthog]

"Saudis tell Bush to moderate Israel support or face "Grave Consequences"!"

Gee, what will the Saudi's do--give MORE money to Islamic extremists?? Provide MORE pilots to drive airplanes into US buildings??

Saudi Arabia is as big an enemy of the west as Iraq--they are just wilier about it. When it is to their maximum advantage, they WILL stab the U.S. in the back.

[TLBSHOW]

The Saudi Embassy has begun a television ad campaign in the United States promoting Saudi-U.S. ties and urging Americans to "Please keep your eyes, ears and especially your minds open."

I do keep my mind open and Islam is a False Religion.

[looney tune]

The Saudi's are weasels. They cannot be trusted.

[dighton]

ANGRY ARAB PUBLIC

Yawn .... full of "rage" and whatnot all year round.

[Texbob]

If Bush had any balls he would have repeated his promise to the Saudi's, any nation that harbors terrorist or makes finicial support to terrorist will be treated like terrorist and ridded from the world. It is the Saudis that are going to face grave consequences. They have been as big supporters of terrorist as Iraq and we can take them down a lot easier than taking down Iraq. But under Bush this will not happen. He lost his war on terrorist when he started ordering Israel to stop doing what Bush was doing in Afganistan. He did not have the staying power to win the war.

[CreekerFreeper]

Bush to Saudis: NUTS!

[okie01]

"He (Abdullah) doesn't mince his words, like the president. ... If the U.S. doesn't do more to reduce the violence, there will be grave consequences for the U.S. and its interests," [foreign policy] adviser Adel al-Jubeir said.

This is not the kind of public statement that normally comes from a trained diplomat, nor wins friends and influences American presidents. Thus, I wonder:

1. What role does al-Jubeir really play in Saudi affairs?

2. How long will he remain in that role?

Inasmuch as it cannot bear any relationship to what Abdullah really said, and how he said it, al-Jubeir is obviously aiming his comments at a Middle East audience. Which also leaves me to wonder what it is that Abdullah really said. Because, odds are, it didn't resemble this statement...

[abclily]

What's the angry Arab public going to do? Throw sand at us?

[Windy-Dave]

Common sense is an un-common virtue! Where are the rest who think like you do? I could get to like this person!

[vannrox]

Bush is just biding his time. He is trying to train and build up our military after a decade of pillaging by the Clinton-Gore-Reno dictatorship. For one thing, he has to manufacture about 10,000 cruse missiles...

[SJackson]

Thanks for your post. Sometimes common sense is a rare commodity.

[Edward Watson]

Oooohh, do those in the Middle East seriously think they can blackmail the United States??? This reminds me of Blazing Saddles, where the new black sheriff puts a gun to his own head and warns "Don't come any closer or the [black man] gets it!!!"

Frankly, get it over and done with - 25,000 Marines are sufficient to hold the oil fields and terminals against any combination of Arab armies until reinforced several months later.

LOL! Why doesn't President Bush just play hardball and solve the problem???

[anapikoros]

The Saudis are only using the Israel-Arab confrontation as a deflection from the real issue which for them is keeping their Royal a$$es in power.

Their gambit ATM is that they cannot support Bush on Iraq because of US support for Israel. Eliminate that excuse and they will come up with another just as feeble.

Their main concern is that resolving the Iraq problem will install a US compliant regime there which will be a strong counter to the Saud oil influence - the reason the Saudis lobbied Bush senior not to finish off Saddam H. last time around.

[crystalk]

Arab american maybe, but not a Muslim american, you have too direct a reasoning process to be that.

[desertcry]

If we want to take the dagger away from the saudis, we must develop ANWAR. But ANWAR is forbidden by the democrats. Well, November is coming we have an opportunity to give the Republicans the Majority in the Senate, what say you we do it!!