Saudi's worse then Iran?

[Charlie P]

U.S. Officials Voice Frustrations With Saudis"™ Role in Iraq
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This article was reported by Helene Cooper, Mark Mazzetti and Jim Rutenberg, and written by Ms. Cooper.
WASHINGTON, July 26 "” During a high-level meeting in Riyadh in January, Saudi officials confronted a top American envoy with documents that seemed to suggest that Iraq"™s prime minister could not be trusted.
One purported to be an early alert from the prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr warning him to lie low during the coming American troop increase, which was aimed in part at Mr. Sadr"™s militia. Another document purported to offer proof that Mr. Maliki was an agent of Iran.
The American envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, immediately protested to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, contending that the documents were forged. But, said administration officials who provided an account of the exchange, the Saudis remained skeptical, adding to the deep rift between America"™s most powerful Sunni Arab ally, Saudi Arabia, and its Shiite-run neighbor, Iraq.
Now, Bush administration officials are voicing increasing anger at what they say has been Saudi Arabia"™s counterproductive role in the Iraq war. They say that beyond regarding Mr. Maliki as an Iranian agent, the Saudis have offered financial support to Sunni groups in Iraq. Of an estimated 60 to 80 foreign fighters who enter Iraq each month, American military and intelligence officials say that nearly half are coming from Saudi Arabia and that the Saudis have not done enough to stem the flow.

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[Charlie P]

The American officials in Iraq also say that the majority of suicide bombers in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia and that about 40 percent of all foreign fighters are Saudi. Officials said that while most of the foreign fighters came to Iraq to become suicide bombers, others arrived as bomb makers, snipers, logisticians and financiers.

So the majority of the 60-80 foreign fighters a month are Saudi.The hijackers on 9/11 were almost all saudi. Bin Laden is a Saudi. The royal family funds terro and allows camps to operate. The royal family of SA has held telethons to support hamas and the PLO but they are an allie?

They also have one of the most fundamentalist goverments in the M.E. and we hold hands with them????

[Fieldmouse]

We also buy most of our oil from them don't forget that.

[brucelanthier]

The bush family is also some of their best pals too.

[Red Lion]

All true and not surprising. We are a nation of superficialharlets that will let anything pass as long as we get ours. [&o]

[Charlie P]

We also buy most of our oil from them don't forget that

Really
The United States imports between 17 and 22 percent of its oil from the Persian Gulf, nearly 12 percent of that coming from Saudi Arabia. About 57 percent of the U.S. oil supply comes from outside the country.

[Fieldmouse]

ORIGINAL: Charlie P

Really
The United States imports between 17 and 22 percent of its oil from the Persian Gulf, nearly 12 percent of that coming from Saudi Arabia. About 57 percent of the U.S. oil supply comes from outside the country.

I'm not sure about those fiqures but it doesn't matter. What we need to do is open up our own land for oil drilling and use our own resources.

[Charlie P]

I'm not sure about those fiqures but it doesn't matter.

You are a funny guy.

[brucelanthier]

ORIGINAL: Fieldmouse

I'm not sure about those fiqures but it doesn't matter. What we need to do is open up our own land for oil drilling and use our own resources.

You post more erroneous BS, get called on it and dismiss it because it "doesn't matter". That's not funny, it's pathetic .

[Fieldmouse]

ORIGINAL: brucelanthier

You post more erroneous BS, get called on it and dismiss it because it "doesn't matter". That's not funny, it's pathetic .

Right bruce. Like I said I wasn't that concerened with his numbers. I think the point of the thread was Saudi's worst then Iran. I pointed out we buy most of our oil from them is correct when were talking about the persian gulf area which is what this thread was about. Save you BS for someone else.