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2011-03-21 Africa North

Revenge of the House of Saud--First Saddam now Qaddafi

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Posted by tipper 2011-03-21 00:36|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Sorry. Meant to hightlight the above.

Posted by tipper 2011-03-21 00:46|| 2011-03-21 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 No problem - fixed now.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2011-03-21 03:12|| 2011-03-21 03:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Any source for the quote from King Saud? It's not in the article.

Posted by Grunter 2011-03-21 13:32|| 2011-03-21 13:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-03-21 13:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-03-21 13:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-03-21 14:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-03-21 14:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-03-21 14:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-03-21 15:49|| Front Page Top

#10 The article lost me after 1 million dead iraqis.

Posted by Knuckles Chack2746 2011-03-21 22:50|| 2011-03-21 22:50|| Front Page Top

#11 "Seymour Hersh on Abu Ghraib" aaand we're done.

Posted by Grunter 2011-03-21 23:15|| 2011-03-21 23:15|| Front Page Top

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