Cheney is asking the House of Saud for Bribe Money

[Perky]

I can almost guarantee that Cheney is asking the Saudis to pony up the money and exert influence with their tribal connections to stop the civil was. Waht's a billion or two in blood money betweeen friends.
ice. Anyone think that is because Rice being a woman is not respected as a peer by the Saudies or if it simply domestically the Sauds can negotiate with a woman?

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. I don't think Rice's sex is as much of a factor

as is the fact that the woman is a total idiot.

[Virginian]

3. It IS a factor with the Saudis (rant)

Saudi women have no rights. They don't vote, they don't even drive. They have to have the proper MALE escourts to go anywhere. It's like women are property.

Condi may have Cheney as a proper MALE escourt, but even if she wasn't an idiot, they wouldn't respect her. To them, it isn't like she is a free woman, she is an unowned woman.

It has been less than a half century here that a woman has been taken on her own merits and not asked, "And what does YOUR husband do?" In our not so distant past, when a woman didn't have a husband at all, it wasn't because she had a full life without marriage, it was thought that she couldn't catch a good man. Women went to college to get their MRS degrees.
Look at the way our female politicians are treated. They still aren't respected. They are held to way different standards than the men. The Saudi women are at least a century behind us in evolving attitudes and I don't see any sign of their catching up within my lifetime unless the Saudi men are forced to respect an American woman as POTUS.

(rant off)

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. I don't remember Madeline Albright having that problem.

[Perky]

8. Excellent POINT

[JuniperLea]

9. Touche

I'm pretty tired of the anti-woman angle... and I'm a woman!!!

[Virginian]

12. Last time I checked, I was too.

I'm pretty tired of us accepting the misogyny of the Saudis as OK.

[ComerPerro]

11. well, unlike Condi, she was intelligent and a skilled diplomat

[donsu]

10. true

nt

[Donkeykick]

2. Gee Whiz!

I didn't think Dubya needed any help. What happened, Dubya? :eyes:

[filer]

5. Or another possibility...

Big Dick could be cajoling them to cut oil production in order to boost world prices. The elections are over now, and there's no longer any need to keep prices down at the pump.

After all, with the BFEE, isn't the bottom line always about money?

[pdxmom]

6. Why Cheney? I thought Bush was the one that liked to hold hands

with the Saudis. I'm surprised that with the history between the Bush and Saudi Arabia, Cheney is the one being tasked to go. That seems to me that he's being sent to threaten and play the "bad cop".

[Demeter]

7. Cheney's Looking for a Bolt Hole

He's always been a step or two ahead of Bush, who has already bought an hacienda in Paraguay. As if South America is safe for a GOP on the run!