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| Revenge of the House of Saud--First Saddam now Qaddafi |
| 2011-03-21 |
| It's rumoured that Khamis Qaddafi a son of Daffy, one of those covered in this article has just died of burns. "I summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite slave." King Fahd in 1993 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 "Seymour Hersh on Abu Ghraib" aaand we're done. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2011-03-21 23:15 |
| #10 The article lost me after 1 million dead iraqis. |
| Posted by: Knuckles Chack2746 2011-03-21 22:50 |
| #9 That's strange Zhang Fei. The link was a google PDF quick view. Works perfectly for me. Anyhow, here's the original PDF link. I got it fine, thanks. I'm just referring to the speculative stuff on this guy's home page: http://www.markswatson.com/ . On the assumption that he did not hear the remark firsthand from King Fahd, it may be worthwhile to see what other things he believes, to see if he's a worthwhile source. Based on the items on his web page, I think he's a garden-variety conspiracy theorist. The Pakistani Patriot is basically an Islamist website, so that's also kind of questionable. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-03-21 15:49 |
| #8 That's strange Zhang Fei. The link was a google PDF quick view. Works perfectly for me. Anyhow, here's the original PDF link. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-03-21 14:49 |
| #7 Any source for the quote from King Saud? It's not in the article. This is a PDF source. Go down to Saudi Arabia. From the sidebar of this PDF source's home page: Vote Rigging In 2004 (A 2 Hour Look) - Part 1 And Part 2 Hard Evidence Of Vote Fraud In Ohio - 2 Min Update Bev Harris Interviewed On Ohio Vote Fraud Announcement On Ohio Vote Legal Action Seymour Hersh On Abu Gharib Lethal Injections: The Hidden Dangers Of Vaccines Bush Blocked Bin Laden Probes Corporate Propaganda Gore Vidal On Terrorism The Bush's Oil War The Bilderbergs American Dynasty: The Bush Family The 911 Cover-Up Commission The Mafia, CIA And Bush |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-03-21 14:35 |
| #6 Any source for the quote from King Saud? It's not in the article. This is a PDF source. Go down to Saudi Arabia. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-03-21 14:00 |
| #5 I think the ultimate source is this website. It's pretty anti-semitic. My guess - from looking at some of its contents - is that it's either put up by leftists unhappy about Desert Storm or shilling for bin Ladenist or Khomeinist interests. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-03-21 13:54 |
| #4 I remember that quote. The problem with it is that no one knows where it comes from. The earliest mention I see on Google is Feb 1, 2001. If Fahd actually said that, he is uncommonly generous to his slaves. He paid $40b to the US for Desert Storm, dwarfing Kuwait's $10b and Japan's $10b, in a war where we lost just north of 100 men, and needed to fight to prevent Iraq from gaining control of Saudi Arabia and perhaps unifying Arabia. Meanwhile, Iraq and Afghanistan have cost us $1.2t and 6000 dead, and no one remotely thinks those countries will give us any money for our trouble. Europe cost us 400K men dead during WWI and WWII, and 50% of our GDP for 4 years, and I don't recall Europeans paying us for our operating expenses. In fact, a substantial chunk of the continent thinks we're war criminals for invading Iraq and Afghanistan. If Fahd's hefty recompense for our relatively light losses during Desert Storm are anything to go by, if we had lost anything near the casualties of WWII, we would have had a friend for life. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-03-21 13:45 |
| #3 Any source for the quote from King Saud? It's not in the article. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2011-03-21 13:32 |
| #2 No problem - fixed now. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2011-03-21 03:12 |
| #1 Sorry. Meant to hightlight the above. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-03-21 00:46 |