Mortgaged to the House of Saud (making the MidEast safe for Saudi's)

[papau]

After two wars to make the Middle East safe for the Saudis....

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-scheer9aug09,0,2624949.story?track=tottext

ROBERT SCHEER
Mortgaged to the House of Saud
Robert Scheer

August 9, 2005

THE ONLY EVIDENCE you need that President Bush is losing the "war on terror" is this: On Sunday, the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia said that relations with the United States "couldn't be better."

Tell that to the parents of those who have died in two wars defending this corrupt spawning ground of violent extremism. Never mind the ugly facts: We are deeply entwined with Saudi Arabia even though it shares none of our values and supports our enemies.

Yet on Friday, Bush's father and Vice President Dick Cheney made another in a long line of obsequious American pilgrimages to Riyadh to assure the Saudis that we continue to be grateful for the punishment they dish out.<snip>

Our president loves to use the word "evil" in his speeches, yet throughout his life he and his family have had deep personal, political and financial ties with a country that represents everything the American Revolution stood against: tyranny, religious intolerance, corrupt royalty and popular ignorance. This is a country where women aren't allowed to drive and those who show "too much skin" can be beaten in the street by officially sanctioned mobs of fanatics. A medieval land where newspapers routinely publish the most outlandish anti-Semitic rants. A place where executions are held in public, torture is the norm in prison and the most extreme and expansionist version of Islam is the state religion.

It's hard to see how Saddam Hussein's brutal and secular Iraq was worse than the brutal theocracy run by the House of Saud. Yet one nation we raze and the other we fete. Is it any wonder that much of the world sees the United States as the planet's biggest hypocrite?<snip>

[DemoTex]

1. " .. keeping our fecklessly oil-addicted country lubricated."

Excellent commentary on the reason Bu$h is who he is. He is a wannabe oil sheik. Bu$h wants the power that the oil sheiks have over him. He wants the power that his evil mother has over him. Bu$h is as fucked-up as Hogan's goat. Nominated.

[papau]

3. Thanks for the nomination! :-)

:-)

[Dhalgren]

2. Excellent editorial! Pulls no punches and is quite an indictment.

SA is a place of "tyranny, religious intolerance, corrupt royalty and popular ignorance." Sounds like what Bush is "working hard" to make the US into...

[raysr]

4. Making the middle east

safe for ISREALIS!