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2003-12-13 Arabia

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Posted by Steve White 2003-12-13 1:24:58 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "... shoulder to shoulder with you against evil."

With a knife in one hand and a song in your heart, no doubt ...

Posted by Dan Darling 2003-12-13 1:27:41 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2003-12-13 1:27:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Are the Saudi's duplicitous, or just plain schizoid?

Posted by joe 2003-12-13 2:58:41 AM|| 2003-12-13 2:58:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 When the Royal family renounces Wahhabism and the House of Saud severes all ties with the Wahhbists, I'll listen. But it ain't gonna happen. So they'll continue to talk nice, but support the exporters of hatred and intolerence.

Posted by Gasse Katze 2003-12-13 3:06:58 AM|| 2003-12-13 3:06:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Joe, guaranteed, the House of Saud will conduct the foreign and domestic affairs of their country, the best way they can see, to maximize the security and prosperity of the people of ... the House of Saud.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-13 4:18:55 AM|| 2003-12-13 4:18:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Glenn is right. Even if this statement is just duplicitous diplospeak, it says something important here. The Saudis think we are the strong horse, and are siding with us, against France, Germany and Russia. The House of Saud see us as their only hope for staying alive.

The fact that many see the Sauds as duplicitous is not a bad thing. Makes it easier for the Prez to say, "Ya know, I'd like to help you and all, but I also got voters who don't like you guys. YOu guys need to clean up your act, get rid of the Wahabis, the jihadis, and release bank records. Also, stop ragging on our citizens who are Christian, or Jewish."

Posted by Ben 2003-12-13 4:44:38 AM|| 2003-12-13 4:44:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 More of the same, eh folks? Oil. Oily. Same same.

So, there's this 40km wide strip along the Eastern coast of Saudi Arabia that provides the funding for the vast majority of the asshat terror in the world and...

Posted by .com 2003-12-13 5:05:18 AM|| 2003-12-13 5:05:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 .com

I really like your signature. I would introduce two changes:
-Remove the asshat, for when dealing with other people.
-Add stolen to the 40 km wide strip. I know Shia would be nearly as bad (but less dangerous since they cannot lead the Sunni world and don't control Mecca)but it would do no harm to unlegitimize Saudi's control of the oil.

Posted by JFM 2003-12-13 8:09:10 AM|| 2003-12-13 8:09:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Lemme see if I can pick up where .com left off . . .

. . . and there were these Marines off that very same coast, and an aircraft carrier, and the last 16"-gunned battleship in operational service in the world, and one fine morning about 0300 . . .

Posted by Mike 2003-12-13 8:11:50 AM|| 2003-12-13 8:11:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 "...the last 16"-gunned battleship in operational service..." There's still one left? Hmmm. A 16" 50-cal naval gun on a ship just offshore can effectively reach about 40km inland. Quite effectively, according to the Iraqi army, vintage 1991. Voice of experience.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-13 9:31:48 AM|| 2003-12-13 9:31:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 After the Somalli post we get this. Thats been the crux of saudi paranoia. If they, the royals, don't target the wahhabs for extinction then the US should. And if that means taking the source of funding from them then so be it. The current situation is a cancer.

Posted by Lucky 2003-12-13 11:18:18 AM|| 2003-12-13 11:18:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Let's see:

Opposed GW2, eligible for recontruction pie. When will we learn.

"He said even more dangerous than terrorists themselves are those who say they condemn terrorism but donât actively fight it." Well this is hitting close to Riyadh.

Say one thing to the infidels. Call for the jihad / death to infidels in the presence of Muslims.

Posted by ed 2003-12-13 11:34:56 AM|| 2003-12-13 11:34:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Don't jump to conclusions about the utility of a battleship on that coast, folks. I think there's a lot of shallow and dangerous water up close, which would reduce inland reach. Check your charts.

I too would be more impressed if Prince Bandar said those things in Arabic, at a conference in Cairo.

Posted by Alan Sullivan 2003-12-13 12:12:41 PM|| [http://bilge.seablogger.com/] 2003-12-13 12:12:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Back in the late 50's there was a comedian named Brother Dave Gardner. One of the funniest people ever - and many modern comics owe their success to stealing one of his bits and taking it mainstream. He had one bit about Cuba which comes to mind reading Alan's comment. The problem with fighting Cuba was that we had fallen in love with missiles - great big intercontinental missiles. He suggested, hysterically, that Cuba was a serious problem: we didn't have anything that would go that short. He said that if war came with Cuba, we'd have to fight them with the Mississippi National Gaurd in the the back of a flatbed wagon. Only thing in our inventory that would fit the circumstances. Heh, heh. Some truth there that took potshots at the Pentagon's love of the huge chrome-plated mega-monster machines.

Same applies to this little strip of land. Prolly take it with the Mississippi National Guard in Zodiacs.

Posted by .com 2003-12-13 1:09:42 PM|| 2003-12-13 1:09:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 He said that if war came with Cuba, we'd have to fight them with the Mississippi National Gaurd in the the back of a flatbed wagon.

Anybody here thinking thats funny? It's standup and be counted time. There ain't no damn thing funny about the Mississippi National Guard! We have Brigades and far flung Cadres of Luckies! Hell give me three gentlemen from Mississippi, be they white, black or green and I'll show you a fire team.
/cracker

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-13 2:01:10 PM|| 2003-12-13 2:01:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Ship - easy, bro! No offence intended, suh! Brother Dave was FROM Mississippi or Alabama, I believe. And you're dead right: nobody can shoot like a cracker who's putting food on the table, not showing off at the range for his / her favorite sex toy of the moment. The Yankees learned this the hard way at Manassas / 1st Bull Run, I buhlieve. I'm from Texas, myownself. I still have my grandfather's 1911 45 ACP, in fact. If my apology is insufficient, suh, I'll get it out of storage when I come back to LA and meet you in, say, Las Cruces. No one will notice us there, heh. Take 10 paces, turn at fire at will! May honah be suhved! ;->

Posted by .com 2003-12-13 3:05:07 PM|| 2003-12-13 3:05:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 You don't invade Cuba, you send them 11 million visas. Problem solved. When Cuba is 51st state most Cubans will go back, unlike the millions of undocumented Mexicans Ridge wants to grant an amnesty.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-12-13 7:37:32 PM|| 2003-12-13 7:37:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 If anyone's schizophrenic, it's gotta be poor Prince Bandar!
He loves the West and all its kuffir decadence, but he's stuck being a Saud and knows that he's seeing the end of Washington's (and Foggy Bottom's) long love affair with SA.
As for the Miss. National Guard, IF ONLY they'd been allowed to do the Bay of Pigs operation, Cuba would probably have been free for the last 40 years, but NOOOOO.....JFK had to use his CIA and Mafia pals!
And TGA (what's a True German Ally look like, BTW, unless it's Donald Rumsfeld?), I'd bet the farm that President Bush and SecDHS Ridge do have a plan to control immigration with both Mexico and Canada and it ain't giving everyone visas.
We cannot fight the GWOIT (Global War on Islamist Terror) against infiltration by those same Islamofascists with 2 very porous borders to our north and south. Ask around.

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-13 9:33:57 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2003-12-13 9:33:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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