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Thursday, August 14, 2003 Fall of the House of Saud?The most positive thing you can say about Bush's hypocritical stance toward Riyadh — smiling and friendly, when both Saudi Arabia and Pakistan should have been invaded instantly for the "reasons" we used to invade Iraq — is that he waged a showy war of convenience on Saddam in order to undermine the House of Saud. Of course invading a Muslim theocracy like Saudi Arabia or Pakistan would be a public-relations disaster, a brilliant way to breed terrorism; so we've suspected for a while at Radio Free Mike that the Iraq invasion was partly a way to backstab the Saudis, drain their regional influence, and relax their grip on oil prices. Whether that was a good idea or not remains to be seen. But Winds of Change argues that the bleeding has started.If this (conservative) line of thinking is true, then the war was about oil. A comment on the Winds of Change piece adds: "If the restoration and expansion of Iraqi oil production means the Saudis get less money for their own oil, that means the Saudis have an incredible interest in making sure the U.S. gets bogged down in Iraq and the infrastructure there never gets repaired. Saudi funding of Al Qaeda and other anti-Western forces dovetails nicely with increased attacks on U.S. troops and engineers in Baghdad and elsewhere." posted by Michael Scott Moore | 4:37 AM | |
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