VISA EXPRESS - SAUDI WAY OF SOLVING THE VISA PROBLEM

FoxNews - Brit Hume show interview transcript ^ | 7/5/02 | FoxNews

[Elkiejg]

This is a partial transcript of Special Report with Brit Hume, July 3, that has been edited for clarity.

BRIT HUME, HOST: One journalist who has been digging into this issue of the State Department, the visas and the Saudis is Joel Mowbray of National Review, who joins me now. Welcome, Joel.

[Elkiejg]

I saw this interview and was flabbergasted by several things. First that the Visa Express is allowed to operate AT ALL in Saudi Arabia. Second, the attitude of the State Dept. on this matter - whose side are they on - America's or terrorists?? Third, if there's more oil in Russia than all of the MidEast - then the H*LL with Arab oil.

[goldstategop]

Why they kiss the behinds of people who hate America and would like to see it reduced to a pile of rubble is beyond me.

[razorback-bert]

Does bump still work with this new ????????????

[valkyrieanne]

The only conclusion I can come to is that the State Dept. is indeed on the side of the Saudis, and not the American people. It needs to be flushed, disinfected, demolished, and rebuilt from the ground up with *patriotic* personnel.

[iconoclast]

Does bump still work with this new ????????????

I dunno, but I'll try too.

[airedale]

Look at the long history of our State Department this is not that unusual. They see their job in large part of making things work at a diplomatic level. Anything that cause waves even wavelets is bad anything that smoothes the waters is good. There is constant tension between the State Department and the White House, Department of Defense and Intelligence agencies. It's not unique to the US and it's State Department. England during the height of it's empire had similar conflicts of interest with other departments.

It doesn’t even matter that much if the Secretary of State is onboard with the administrations programs the lower level staff have their own ideas of how things can and should be done and why they know better. They look at themselves as the elite who know better and the rest as somewhat beneath them because they don’t understand the subtleties of diplomacy While they do good and necessary work often times they work at cross purposes to the administration. Sometimes it’s for the best and other times it makes a mess of things..

[gaspar]

Remember, it was the idiotic Consular Affairs Officer at the Sudan who in 1990 issued the blind sheikh Omar a visa to visit the United States. In the same year the US twice allowed Ayman al-Zawahiri of Egyptian Islamic Jihad to visit the US. The number of screw-ups since 1990 are legion (the US consulate in the Philippines should be an especial target) and Mowbray has a great book to write if he continues his investigation.

[lds23]

The Saudi VISA Card - It's everywhere you want your terrorists to be.

[zerosix]

After that interview, I am beginning to believe that the U.S. State Department should join the list of the President's "Evil Regimes"and is immediately denied any further government funding until it rids itself of it's leaders and is open and transparant about all of it's members and their connections to other terrorist nations and how much it gets from foreign investments and what those monies are used for - and, most importantly - hires only American citizens who under go extensive criminal background checks.

[river rat]

Someone tell me again....why we consider the Saudies "friends", or why we continue to behave as though we trust them.
Screw the Saudies, until they get off their sand filled asses and do something about the radical murdering thugs they supported.
Semper Fi

[PatriotReporter]

the State Dept look out for the U.N not America!!!!