Hehhehhehhehe - He said "Saudi Intelligence." Hehhehehe

The conclusions reached by the BND inquiry were presented to the office of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder late last year

Which would explain all that German activity to combat it since then.

What?

Tap, Tap. Not one blip. Looks like my surprise meter is broken.

Since they have already turned on Dubya by cutting production and are trying to make him lose the election, can we take them out now?

And this surprises –– who?

Oh Turki, you got some 'splainin' to do.

It all doesn't amount to a hill of fucking beans.

Because NOBODY has the cojones to take the bastards out, including GWB.

I do. However, my army consists solely of me and I do not have the strategic reach to turn Riyadh into glass.

Pity, I'd be so damn good at it, too.

You mean to tell me that Saudi Arabian officials may have connections to known terrorists? Somebody better bring this to President Bush’s attention…

If we'd knocked off Riyadh instead of Baghdad, do you think anybody would have fricking cared?

As James Taranto would say: who's distracted?

Every once in a while some anti-Bush polemecist mentions the fact that Saudi Arabia is still on the map (just like NK is still a dictatorship). There's no good reason why, except that we don't have enough resources to invade at the moment.

If W wins the election, we'll find the Saud's much more amenable to suggestion, I'm sure.

David Frum asks if there's a Saudi-Canada connection.

Nice work, BND.

Seriously, people, does anyone really expect anything of consequence to happen to SA or Syria or Iran?

I've lost faith. The "War On Terror" has run out of steam, and it's Bush's fault.

He dropped the ball, big time.

Shocked, SHOCKED, I am!

But this has nothing to do with the concerted Saudi and Saudi Muslim diplomatic efforts, the torrents of Saudi money thrown at publicity efforts, the fact that nearly all the 9/11 attackers were Saudi, the fact that the two holiest sites for Muslims are in Saudi brimming with incitement to terrorist causes, the fact that Saudi withdrew it's cooperation with the US and stepped up it's anti-democratic persecution in synchrony with America's efforts against al Qaeda, the numerous Saudi diplomats with direct ties to bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers...

In fact they are extremely friendly people.

But, but, but... they're our fraaayennnds!

Lil Mamzer,

I tend to agree with your assessment of GWB. He has never prosecuted our defense to Islam's war against us with sufficient vigor. He has yet to really even name the enemy. Meanwhile, he's allowed himself to be neutered by the Dems and their propaganda arm known as the mainstream media.

The only problem is that all the others are worse, far worse. Kerry and his band of traitor Democrats would just surrender.

If McClellan had won the election of 1864, we'd be a divided nation today, and probably divided more regionally than simply north and south. If GWB loses this one, we are socialist in four years, maybe communist and eventually Islamic. Islam will kick the crap out of a socialist regime in no time.

The House of Saud is rotten to the core, and everyone knows it. Unfortunately, they control over 20% of the world's oil reserves. We will have to put up with these bastards and their duplicitous shit until we find a viable alternative source of fuel.

Stop Hillary,

No argument from me about the Dems being much worse for us.

It still doesn't make GWB's lack of vigorous follow-through on his "with us or against us" rhetoric any less disappointing.

We have so many nukes we wouldn't HAVE to invade.

Let the atoms do the work for us.

Yes, this may be true, but didn't Bush (and his State Department) tell us how great the Saudis have been? You can't cut it both ways? Or can you?

"Saudi intelligence linked to Al Qaeda".

Come on, it is Al Qaeda.

"Hello Mr. Turki speaking, how can I help you today?"

Quelle surprise.

If we invaded S.A., I really don't see the locals fighting back. They'd know it was a lost cause, and all the "royals" already have their escape plans. They just thought they'd be escaping from the mullahs instead of the U.S.

Something has to be done about these jerks. What will Dubya do in his second term?

For what it's worth, here's what DEBKAfile has to say about today's attacks in Fallujah...

This was a calculatedly vicious action executed by al Qaeda to remind the Americans of their Mogadishu debacle October 1993.

And he's a glimpse at their overall strategy...

Moroccan psychiatrist Dr. Abu Hafiza, member of the tight Osama bin Laden-Ayman Zuwahiri elite that rules al Qaeda and tactical mastermind of the Madrid rail bombings, compiled a strategic blueprint to govern the network’s steps in 2004. He predicted that the Madrid rail attacks would scar the Spanish psyche sufficiently to turn the electorate away from the government and set off a domino effect that would rebound on Britain’s Tony Blair, Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi and eventually US President George W. Bush.

As the good doctor says, "After knocking over one domino after another, we will stand face to face with the key domino, the United States."

And here's Taranto today on Our Friends, the Saudis

So Riyadh is trying to push oil prices higher, at the same time as John Kerry is campaigning on the issue of high gasoline prices. Are our friends the Saudis thereby expressing their presidential preference?

All of which brings to mind an article by Ed Lasky on The Saudi War Against George Bush As Lasky writes,

Saudi Arabia has launched an undeclared war on George W. Bush. This simple fact must be understood by policy and strategy elites, the press, and the general electorate. Otherwise, the Saudis may well succeed in their tacit campaign to sabotage the long term success of America’s war on terror, by engineering the electoral defeat of George W. Bush in November.

I'm always going to want a V8 muscle car to drive for fun. But, I see a gas-sipping econobox in my future. I should note that my gas "hog" makes about 29 on the highway in sixth, 20 in combined driving.

I don't want to get into an SUV argument, as it is not a passionate issue for me. But, the fact is that my dad's 1969 Impala with a 327 made 16 MPG in combined driving -- with a TWO speed transmission.

The mega-ute often does not do that well on the highway. The latest test by Car and Driver got about 14 on the highway from the largest models. Note: I'm going by weight. I know that most modern SUVs are car based and not huge.

Somehow, we need to cut demand. That's the only solution. There are many ways to do it. I push a reel mower (human powered). I live near a supermarket. I drive about 8,000 miles a year. If everyone did little things to reduce consumption voluntarily the oil cartel would not have so much leverage over us.

Oh, and not drilling in the small patch of ANWR is idiotic. The fact is that the local people are all for it. They are minorities. I'm pretty convinced that the Democrats just don't like Inupiats. Racists!

Democrats only like minorities when they are nice obedient minorities.

I figure they already are cutting oil exports, probably to infulence our election. That in of itself is a casus belli. Add to this their preaching and spreading of Wahabbism and this new tidbit, I say destroy the house of Saud and put the Hashimites in charge of the Hijaz.

The Bush Family has ties to the Saudi Royal Family that run deep. Bush was silent on OPEC's decision to cut oil output until John Kerry accused Bush of ignoring record pump prices. Then all of sudden he says he's disappointed in today's decision. In the 2000 presidential campaign, Bush said it was the president's job to "jawbone" OPEC producers by getting "on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots." I guess Bush didn't really mean that. His ties to Saudi Arabia apparently run deeper than his promise to the American people. Is it any surprise Bush named James Baker Bush's personal envoy in charge of restructuring Iraq's $132 billion in debt. The same James Baker who is defending the Saudi's against a trillion-dollar lawsuit brought forth by the September 11 families.

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I think resistance in Saudi Arabia would be unprecedented, and invasion would be a matter of how they are positioned when al Qaeda has been more fully dealt with. As well as states which pose a WMD threat or have investments in terrorism, the Wahabi promulgators of jihad ideology are the root evil of terrorism, and Saudi has to buckle. They could not be more clearly implicated so even if it meant a dip into reserves the evil must be rooted out. They seem too weak but it would make the world immediately safer if the House of Saud were to take a clampdown seriously. Their thoughts are elsewhere in any case. This argument about the oil highlights the extent to which the mass murdering bastards are prefering to take the piss.

What's scary about Bush's non-response to today's oil cut by the Fraudis--until beaten into a lame one by Kerry--is that it replicates the Spanish surrender without any violence being used as leverage.

Bush had his defining moment with the House of Al Queda and he blinked.

What the fuck is he afraid of? A real war--to take over the Saudi oil fields? Evidence of dirty business, including his dad? WHAT?

The Islamofascists are publicly daring Bush to do anything on the biggest issues--Iran's nukes, Saudi oil...

If Bush thinks that he'll reach November without risking major action, he's reached the point of delusion, and it will get worse, especially when Iran announces in October that it has the bomb.

If we took out the KSA, the whole world would be against us, including Russia. Nobody would let us get our hands on those oil fields without a fight. Do you really want to fight WWIII with the U.S. fighting everbody?

Actually I am not too worried about OPEC cutting oil production. The market has a way of giving the member states strong incentive to cheat on quotas, which they do, thus increasing supply in response to increased prices.

Any oil gurus want to comment?

Then why is Bush kissing the Saudis' a$$ if they want to oust him?

Charles, I assume that Turky Bin Faisal still holds the primary lease on Marina Del Rey with the City Of Los Angeles. Or has he sold it recently?

The oil-producing region of Saudi Arabia is actually a fairly small portion of its total land area.

And it is a flat desert, thinly populated, and what population is there, is Shi'ah. A pushover.

The assistance to terrorists and the spreading of hatred is being done today by the Wahhabis. 15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11 were Saudi Wahhabis.

A possibility is that the Shi'ites in the Arabian peninsula could be encouraged to rebel, and to take ownership of all of those oil reserves that are in the land where the Shi'ites live in the Saudi kingdom.

To help accomplish that, why not split Iraq into three parts: the Kurdistan part in the north which has oil, the Shi'ite part in the south which has lots of oil, and the
Sunni part in the middle including Falujah which has no oil and which has been producing the murders of the Americans.

A strong Shi'ite presence near Saudi Arabia might be helpful in encouraging the Shi'ites to assert themselves. Maybe to rebel. As it is, the Shi'ites in Saudi Arabia are second class people, considered apostates. What have the Wahhabis done for them except persecute them, and take ownership of their oil?

As for the two holy cities, Mecca and Medina, they clearly should be overseen by the Hashimite family which is descended from the Prophet Muhammed via his daughter Fatima.

What possible claim does Ibn Saud's family have over control of the two holy cities except that Ibn Saud used force to evict the Hashimite in charge? This degenerate family is now mostly an example of drinking, carousing, and doing everything that the Wahhabi preachers tell their public not to do, while owning the oil and controlling the two holy cities.

But before we do this, let us invite the Saudi-Wahhabis to carry out some meaningful reforms, including severing their connections to the terrorists. For real. And stopping their subjugation of the Shi'ites. And ending their law that public worship of the non-Wahhabi kind is a capital offense. And curtailing the power of the mad Wahhabi mullahs that preach there an extreme form of desert Islam. And curtailing their worldwide spread of their extreme jihadistic form of Islam.