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Originally Posted by GatorB
No Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. Saudi Arbia did, but we didn't invade them because they are buddies with Bush.
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Most of the 9/11 hijackers were supposedly Saudi, and bin Laden himself is a Saudi, and it's true that Bush and the Saudi royal family have deep economic ties, but recent news out of the Middle East suggests the cozy relationship between Bush and the Saudis is starting to sour...
(Source: Time magazine)
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Saudi Arabia's increasingly public divergence from U.S. positions is a comparatively new development — until fairly recently, Abdullah appeared willing to support Bush as much as possible. But the message out of the Riyadh summit is that the Saudis, along with the other Arab states, have concluded that Washington's policies are neither wise, effective, or in long-term Arab interests, and they are signaling their intent to take greater control over their own destiny.
In his summit speech, Abdullah called the U.S. military involvement in Iraq an "illegitimate foreign occupation," and demanded an end to the "unjust" American-led embargo on the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Authority.
All of this amounted to a sharp debunking of Rice's suggestion that Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies form a new moderate bloc to confront Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hizballah. Abdullah called on his fellow leaders to restore their credibility with the Arab public and never "allow banners to be raised in Arab lands other than those of Arabism."
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It's not hard to understand this when you consider that Bush's disasterous actions in Iraq have removed a Sunni governed state (Iraq), which had been a buffer between Saudi Arabia (which is Sunni run), and Iran (which is a Shiite state).
You've heard the expression wagging the dog, well, in the Middle East, Bush screwed the pooch...
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