--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But wait, I thought they were Republicans. Or maybe > its just that some > Republicans are honorary Saudis. After all, the G. > H. W. Bush library was > built with help from his Saudi friends. Then > there's the Carlyl Group > where the Saudi's have much of their $500 billion > invested and to whom the > sr. Bush is sr. advisor. Then there's the famous > escape of the Saudis; > while all of America was grounded, a plane load of > Saudis, including > members of the Bin Laden family and an Al Qaeda > terrorist named Abu > Zubaydah got permission from the highest levels of > the Bush administration > to fly away home. There's even a book: House of > Saud, House of Bush, > here's an interview with its author:
Well, Doug, you certainly have. The principal goal of all that Saudi money was what? It was to convince the American government to: 1. Make solving the Israeli/Palestinian problem the focus of American efforts in the Middle East 2. To convince the American government to put no pressure on Arab goverments (particularly Saudi Arabia) to reform Which was the _first_ Administration, ever, to reject those two premises? I'll give you one guess. Incidentally, as for that famous escape of the Saudis. Do you know who made the decision to let them out of the country? It was, well, your hero, Richard Clarke. Hmmm. So other than the fact that no Administration in American history has done more to oppose the desires of the Saudi government than that of George W. Bush, what's your evidence that they've been bought off again? What exactly did the Saudis get for that money? Or, _as I've said before_, is it just that everyone who is so foolish as to disagree with you must have been bought off? If you want to know why civil political discourse in this country is decaying, looking in the mirror might be a good start. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
