Did Bush Admin. Order the Saudi Threat to Intervene in Iraq if We Leave? An Excuse to Stay would Sure be Convenient for Them

The Bushies have benefitted from a long, warm relationship with the House of Saud(remember the picture of Bush holding hands with the Prince?) If the Saudis didn't bring down the price of oil leading into the election then it was a miraculous coincidence that gas dropped 70cents over three months around here and is now halfway back to $3 a gallon again in December. They want Bush in power. So does Bin Laden (nephew of Salem bin Laden, the angel that bailed W out of Arbusto, one of his failed business ventures). He makes campaign videos for George, doesn't he?
In light of the timing of Cheney's visit, it makes sense that they would threaten armagedon, that's so Cheney in style.
If it actually came to pass, it would be a deveastating conflict that could be said to go back a thousand or more years, the Arabs versus the Persians. And since Saudi Arabia and Iran are #1 and 2 in oil production and reserves, who gets Iraq's oil matters.
The Sunnis that Saudi Arabia backs, live in the portion of the country that has no oil. In order to get control of it, they will have to displace the majority Shi'a, who are backed by Iran. (That's already happening, Sunni insurgents are getting their funding from Saudi clerics and charities. They get their money, eventually, from the gas we buy for our SUVs, so OUR money is going to Iraq to pay people to kill OUR troops and frustrate our program, right? [Buy CITGO!] )
My guess is that they will gang up on the Kurds and take THEIR oil, leaving the Kurds screwed again (and of course, we will stand by and let it happen, again, keeping our allies, the Saudis and Turkey happy).
What a mess!
GET US OUT NOW!

troops; "events" will require it. Nonetheless, Bush can't get away with this for long; I think the American people are sick of this useless war. Mostly, I pity our troops and their families, and I pity the Iraqis who have to survive in the anarchy.

On another note, I would like to know who formed and funded the Iraq Study Group? What factions of the ruling oligopoly are fighting each other as manifested in the Iraq Study Group? Did the Carlisle Group suddenly realize that things were way too out of hand and they had to rein George and Cheney in?

the saudis are getting backed into a corner as far as their monopoly on the worlds energy supply. of course they want iraq under their fanatical little thumb. with emerging new technologies moving away from oil they will grab as much oil as they can then jack up the price in order to keep making the profits they are so accustomed to while it's still possible. being as that bush 1 and 2 and the carlyle group and haliburton and smith are so deeply in the saudis pocket i really think that they might have pushed for the war for exactly that purpose. to destabilize iraq and eventually gain control of another 11% of the world's oil supply. it looks like we're their puppet in this after all.

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority." -Ben Franklin

but the Saudis have sufficient interest to intervene in the event of a US pullout, that they wouldn't need to be prodded to do so. The Buzz surrounding Cheney's trip, was that the Saudis summoned him, not the other way around. Would a scenario in which the Saudis informed Cheney of their intentions in secret, and the Bush regime responded by asking the Saudis go public be more likely?

tseving
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