[Cachelot]

Trivial Pursuit question: On which day during the hajj would you get the most bang for the bucks dropping a largish H-bomb over mecca?

[tall_tex]

....They noted that the soldiers could return if the Saudi rulers faced a new threat...

Unbeleivable statement. I am speachless..

[Mark Felton]

No problem.

We'll have major military bases in Kuwait, Qatar, Afghanistan, Turkey and ...Iraq.

[Rummyfan]

I'll believe it when I see it....

[McGavin999]

This is excellent. It's going to be a hard row to hoe for them, but I think they can succeed. The hard part is going to be to get the clerics under control. If that happens, they can make it.

We won't need a presense in SA as long as we remain in Iraq helping them to build their democracy, and the SA young people will become very interested when the Iraqui people are free and prosperous, and the Iranian students finally manage to bring democracy to their own country. This whole thing could result and a free, prosperous and PRO-AMERICAN middle east.

[steveegg]

As long as ALL the reasons for the need to protect that peninsula are removed first,....

[steveegg]

One more thing; if we left Saudi Arabia, does anyone seriously think that Al Qaeda will suddenly stop attacking us? If so, I've got a hot news flash; Islamists don't stop until they're stopped cold.

[Republican Wildcat]

Looks like they want us to get rid of Saddam so they will no longer need our protection. That's the only reason they have wanted us to stay there all these years.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Great. I say we tell the Sauds: "Fine, we're out. And by the way, if we even smell a hint of your Wahabi whack jobs near our borders, we're coming in with both barrels. Have fun, Saudi Princes, keeping your insane subjects in line. See you in a month or two after they've destroyed a few of your palaces."

[philman_36]

But these princes say Crown Prince Abdullah will ask President Bush to withdraw all American armed forces from the kingdom as soon as the campaign to disarm Iraq has concluded.
Time to leave behind some of that fancy military technology...

In 1998, the US Naval Research Laboratory identified a number of offensive uses of genetically engineered anti-material weapons. These include microbes that damage or destroy hydrocarbons, plastics, natural and synthetic rubber, metals, composite materials. Also included are microorganisms that produce small inclusion bodies of salts, metals, or plastic-like granules ("polyhydroxyalkanates") that can cause failure of machinery. These properties could be used to damage or destroy: (16)
Highways and runways, both cement and asphalt
Metal parts, coatings, and lubricants of weapons
Vehicles (including aircraft) and support equipment
Fuels, supplies, and replacement parts
High efficiency filters (through clogging)
Composites, paints and protective coatings, including "stealth" anti-radar coatings
Plastics, including body armor

Who says we can't take what we built...(of not allowing the U.S. use of the highly sophisticated Prince Sultan air base (built by the U.S.) as a key command-and-control center in the war in Afghanistan.) with us when we leave.
I wouldn't leave anything behind, except for those little microscopic bugs. A good use of my tax dollars!

[Brian Allen]

<< Saudis Plan to End U.S. Presence >>

Dipshits.

Don't they get it yet?

They're next!

Those Evil bastards don't get to "plan" nuthin' no more! NEVER!

[A CA Guy]

There is no freedom there, how does this qualify as a CONSERVATIVE kingdom?