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I'm sure you'd much prefer him to use the language that we use here on FR; of course, that is why HE is POTUS and we are not.

I don't give a rat's ass about his language. I want to know why this administration considers Saudi Arabia a "close ally" after 9/11 and the news that they've been supporting terrorism all over the globe.

I also want to know why every single American isn't furious with Saudi Arabia.

POTUS seems to have no problem ripping Iraq. But after all, they're the ones that didn't kill thousands of Americans.

How do you know what the Saudis are contributing under the radar? Do you expect them to stand up and pledge love forever to Uncle Sam? Bush doesn't expect that. I don't expect that. Maybe the Saudis are pledged to protect our airmen in Qatar from terrorist attack over their border? That's a real commitment.

Only losers, who lose, who can't compromise and take little victories, don't get it. Bush takes every offer of support knowing the extent and openess with which they can give. Which is very little at this point.

This is geopolitics. The world wants to pretend the Middle East is loving and warm. Schroeder needs to be re-elected. Chirac is fighting for his life. Blair is the big swinging d**k, he knows that success is the cure all to political annoyances. Putin does too, but he can't openly compromise the economic investments his industry has in Iraq. We'll make them good ex post facto. Musharraf can't step up. Mubarak is shackled. The Turks have a Kurd issue, they're fired up. We have significantly more World support in this endeavor than meets the eye. Nobody wants to step up to stand by us but the Brits. Blair is hell bent that he, and Great Britain, will be alpha male force in the EU. He's not going to let the Continental twits steamroll his mates. Really though, we don't need anyone but the Brits, Qatarzans (and their Jungle Band) and the Turks. The Germans, French, Dutch, Saudis, Jordanians, Russians, Egyptians, Chinese and Canadians are pitching in or minding their business, don't you doubt it.

Bush operates on a plane that seems to elude many here.

If any of these countries' overt support of us would compromise their efforts to sniff out and destroy the terrorist cells in their nations, I'll take the latter objective thank you very much. We'll go it alone, you guys roust and neutralizle the dirtbag badguys.

This is a Kabuki Dance on the world stage. Nothing is real but the stone cold truth that Saddam is dead meat if he doesn't leave town wit a quickness.