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by Steven D
Bush held hands with Saudi Princes as if he were a blushing bride. Obama has been castigated for "bowing" to the Saudi King. Yet almost everyone on both sides of the political aisle agrees that Saudi Arabia is a key ally of the United States in the Middle East. Why?
They support the most extreme brand of Islam, the equivalent of White Nationalist Identity Christianity in the US. They exploit their dominance of the world's oil reserves to keep us dependent on fossil fuels, adding to the danger of global warming. They suppled most of the individuals who attacked us on 9/11 and they supply most of the "foreign fighters" in Iraq responsible for suicide bombing attacks on US troops and Shi'ite communities. Oh, and they covered up Al Qaueda's involvement on the most deadly attack on American troops stationed on their soil, the 1995 bombings of the Khobar Towers. Yes, your read that right, they covered upo the complicity of Al Qaeda, pointing the finger at Iran, when all the evidence suggested it was their own homegrown Sunni fundamentalist Islamic terrorists who were responsible:
On June 25, 1996, a massive truck bomb exploded at a building in the Khobar Towers complex in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, which housed United States Air Force personnel, killing 19 airmen and wounding 372. And these are our friends and allies? These liars and deceivers. These despots with American blood on their hands. The regime whose ass we saved from Saddam Hussein in 1991. The regime that is the one of the most restrictive of individual liberty, one of the largest a violators of human rights, especially the rights for women, and the spreader of an ideology that has metastasized into Sunni fundamentalist terrorist groups that plague Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan among other countries. The regime which has members among the royalty who no doubt still support the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. Compared to Iran, these bastards have stabbed us in the back more times than you can imagine. They would like nothing more than to bleed us dry of our wealth and military power by attacking Iran, their religious and ideological enemy. Is protecting American oil companies access to the oil reserves of the Saudis really worth the price we as a country and a planet are paying in lives lost, in the past, the present and the future? Apparently too many of our politicians believe it is. Do you?
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