Who let Liberals play with the media anyway? That's like letting a child play with a book of matches.
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Posted on 12/12/2006 8:30:48 PM PST by jmc1969
Saudi Arabia has told the Bush administration that it might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in a war against Iraqi Shiites if the United States withdraws from Iraq, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing American and Arab diplomats.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia delivered that message to Dick Cheney during the U.S. vice president's brief visit last month to Riyadh, the newspaper said, citing the officials it did not name.
Cheney traveled to Saudi Arabia, a close U.S. ally and the world's top oil exporter, to discuss Iraq and how to break the deadlock in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
During the visit, King Abdullah expressed strong opposition to diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran, which is largely Shi'ite, the Times said.
The White House could not immediately be reached to comment on the report.
Until now Saudi officials have promised Washington that they would refrain from aiding Iraq's Sunni insurgency. But that pledge holds only as long as the United States remains in Iraq, The New York Times reported.
The Saudis have argued strenuously against a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, voicing fears that Iraq's minority Sunni population would be massacred, the newspaper said.
The newspaper cited U.S. officials as saying that those fears have heightened amid the rising pressure in the United States for for American troops to withdraw and calls for direct talks with Iran.
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Aha, Prince Turki's resignation (aka the ""Turki Wrap") makes a little more sense now.
I might reconsider pulling out now. These people love to fight. Let them fight. Get it on. We'll mop up when they are done killin' each other.
Of course they will - they have no choice but to help, and Iran/Iraq will push them to war in about 2 years.
it does indeed, as does the delay in the Bush speech until after new years.
Explain to the current leadership this is what we will do unless Al Sadr's head is delivered and the Sunni tribes start turning on Al Qaida big time. We have, at best, one more year for a political solution. Not because the American military lacks the will and the skill, but because the American sheeple led by the enemedia do.
This "news" is a couple of weeks old.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1745915/posts
I have a feeling the resignation was about US pressure to get Saudi Arabia to do something about its citizens funding "insurgents".
Sunnis to the left of me, shia to the right.
Dear Shia, have you noticed that Mecca is in Sunni hands?
Love, AmishDude.
YEEHAW!
Lets get outa there and let Iran and Saudi-Arabia go at it. THey are itchin for a fight, let'em. We'll back the A-rabs from down in the land of Saud and use that for an excuse to take out Iranian nukes.
It'll be just like in the time of mohammed...arab versus persian.
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Hey Saudi Arabia,
Maybe we would be able to stick around longer if your sunni buddies weren't killing our soliders.
Strange things are afoot in the Magic Kingdom, that's for sure.
And a war with Turkey will soon follow.
If structured properly, a friendly Kurdish state on Turkey's southern border might actually be a stabalizing influence, but I would be interested in hearing what Turkish Freepers had to say. Like the founder of the modern Turkish state, Ataturk, Kurds have been generally distrustful about too much Islamic influence in the affairs of state.
I will be interested too, I have been told that a Kurdish state is unexceptable to Turkey since Turkey feels such a state would lead Kurds in Turkey rebell in an attempt to join the new state.
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