Clerical error. The memo was forwarded to Sector 7G and misplaced under a box of donuts.
Poll
Why didn't/hasn't USA invaded/attacked Saudi Arabia?
| Bush <3 King Fahd | 12% | 12% - 7 | ||||
| Bush <3 Saudi Oil | 33% | 33% - 19 | ||||
| Only Iraqis/Afghans/Iranians took part in 9/11 | 0% | 0% - 0 | ||||
| The enemy of my enemy is my friend | 16% | 16% - 9 | ||||
| They don't really care about democracy | 5% | 5% - 3 | ||||
| They don't really care about radical islam | 3% | 3% - 2 | ||||
| They are unable to prioritise issues effectively | 1% | 1% - 1 | ||||
| Saudi Arabia buys shitloads of US weaponry | 7% | 7% - 4 | ||||
| A clerical error at the Pentagon | 7% | 7% - 4 | ||||
| Other | 12% | 12% - 7 | ||||
| Total: 56 | ||||||
look at the bright side, in fifty years after all the oil is gone their fuckedParker wrote:
its because of those nice "were sorry, keep buying our oil" commercials they ran after 9-11......made me feel much better.....who cares that they support a wahabist form of radical islam.....as long as they say that they care.....
Have I mentioned I'm a fan of the coal to oil program . http://www.glennbeck.com/2006ads/jbluctl.pdfSuperslim wrote:
look at the bright side, in fifty years after all the oil is gone their fuckedParker wrote:
its because of those nice "were sorry, keep buying our oil" commercials they ran after 9-11......made me feel much better.....who cares that they support a wahabist form of radical islam.....as long as they say that they care.....
Xbone Stormsurgezz
Because it is in our best interest to be allies with them.
1. they have a few gallons of oil
2. they let us put military bases there
3. they have billions invested in the US
I voted the enemy of my enemy is my ally because at this current point in time the Saudi nation as a whole is not a threat to the US and they dont seem to be buddy-buddy with Iran at the moment.
1. they have a few gallons of oil
2. they let us put military bases there
3. they have billions invested in the US
I voted the enemy of my enemy is my ally because at this current point in time the Saudi nation as a whole is not a threat to the US and they dont seem to be buddy-buddy with Iran at the moment.
It always astounds me how Bush though, (the word 'thought' being used generously here,):
- "Fuck I've just been attacked by a Saudi islamic extremist."
- "He's hiding in Afghanistan."
- "To combat this I'm going to initiate a full scale invasion of Iraq."
I mean I know it's sometimes fun tracing back your train of thought, but Bush's train must've been fucking Amtrak.
- "Fuck I've just been attacked by a Saudi islamic extremist."
- "He's hiding in Afghanistan."
- "To combat this I'm going to initiate a full scale invasion of Iraq."
I mean I know it's sometimes fun tracing back your train of thought, but Bush's train must've been fucking Amtrak.
[Blinking eyes thing]
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You go after the ---->governments<----- that support them. Not just the places they just so happened to be born in.Ty wrote:
It always astounds me how Bush though, (the word 'thought' being used generously here,):
- "Fuck I've just been attacked by a Saudi islamic extremist."
- "He's hiding in Afghanistan."
- "To combat this I'm going to initiate a full scale invasion of Iraq."
I mean I know it's sometimes fun tracing back your train of thought, but Bush's train must've been fucking Amtrak.
Last edited by Kmarion (2007-01-16 23:34:20)
Xbone Stormsurgezz
But I don't think you can deny that the majority of his very close support came from Saudi arabia...Kmarion wrote:
You go after the ---->governments<----- that support them. Not just the places they just so happened to be born in.Ty wrote:
It always astounds me how Bush though, (the word 'thought' being used generously here,):
- "Fuck I've just been attacked by a Saudi islamic extremist."
- "He's hiding in Afghanistan."
- "To combat this I'm going to initiate a full scale invasion of Iraq."
I mean I know it's sometimes fun tracing back your train of thought, but Bush's train must've been fucking Amtrak.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
True indeed. They did come from there. If memory serves correctly, they were also *expelled* from there.Spark wrote:
But I don't think you can deny that the majority of his very close support came from Saudi arabia...Kmarion wrote:
You go after the ---->governments<----- that support them. Not just the places they just so happened to be born in.Ty wrote:
It always astounds me how Bush though, (the word 'thought' being used generously here,):
- "Fuck I've just been attacked by a Saudi islamic extremist."
- "He's hiding in Afghanistan."
- "To combat this I'm going to initiate a full scale invasion of Iraq."
I mean I know it's sometimes fun tracing back your train of thought, but Bush's train must've been fucking Amtrak.
again, you attack the governments that support terrorism, not the ones that raise citizens that happen to become terrorists. The US and UK both have home-grown terrorists, and you don't see them attacking one another.
It isn't a double standard because I'm not suggesting the US take such an action, just like the way I never suggested the US should ever have invaded Iraq. I'm just demonstrating a double standard and a prioritisation issue. The vast majority of 9/11 bombers hailed from Saudi Arabia, a radically islamic dictatorship, let's face it.DesertFox423 wrote:
Isn't this a double standard? The country is criticized for invading Iraq, which was a dictatorship, and the site of more than a few, to put it gently, human rights violations. However now, you can chastise the country for not toppling more autocracies in the world?
This isn't supposed to be any sort of personal attack, just a poorly expressed thought.
Last edited by CameronPoe (2007-01-17 02:13:08)
CameronPoe wrote:
America:
- Schools preaching fundamentalist form of Christianity (Creationism): check
- Involvement in 9/11: checkorama (!!!)
- Associated with Osama Bin Laden: check (bush regime heavily involved with Osama's family)
- Would like to see the destruction of state terrorists and fund their ally Israel: check
- Human rights abuses: check (capital & corporal punishment, torture flights, people treated like subhumans, GITMO)
- Undemocratic: checkorama (!!!)
- Sponsors terrorism: check
- Military buildup: check
Is this the famous old 'US hypocrisy'? Why yes...
2,5 & 8
If Saudi decided to start trading oil in Euros or decided to stop exporting its oil to the US you would have an invasion by tea time.
Afghanistan and Iraqi are all about guaranteeing the free flow of oil. Surly the continuing support of Saudi with all its human rights abuses and dictatorship rules out the "we invaded Iraqi and Afghanistan for freedom, democracy and to free the people" argument once and for all.
If Saudi decided to start trading oil in Euros or decided to stop exporting its oil to the US you would have an invasion by tea time.
Afghanistan and Iraqi are all about guaranteeing the free flow of oil. Surly the continuing support of Saudi with all its human rights abuses and dictatorship rules out the "we invaded Iraqi and Afghanistan for freedom, democracy and to free the people" argument once and for all.