Saudi Minister Warns U.S. Iraq May Face Disintegration
Saudi Minister Warns U.S. Iraq May Face Disintegration
By JOEL BRINKLEY, NYT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 - Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, said Thursday that he had been warning the Bush administration in recent days that Iraq was hurtling toward disintegration, a development that he said could drag the region into war.
"There is no dynamic now pulling the nation together," he said in a meeting with reporters at the Saudi Embassy here. "All the dynamics are pulling the country apart." He said he was so concerned that he was carrying this message "to everyone who will listen" in the Bush administration.
Prince Saud's statements, some of the most pessimistic public comments on Iraq by a Middle Eastern leader in recent months, were in stark contrast to the generally upbeat assessments that the White House and the Pentagon have been offering. [...]
Posted by Ted Belman at September 23, 2005 08:57 AM
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yogineocon
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The House of Saud has no limits to their inappropriate commnents, but this preaching is choice. This is a country with ungodly petro dollars but sky high unemployment, churning out Jihaders with anti-semitic, anti-US with their mind-control media and mosques (loved the LGF/CAIR link this week for another Jerry Lewis style suicide bomber telethon in SA). But hey, they even have stood up to Condi calling out our "friends", so as long as dictators like the House and FARC sympathizer/Castro pal Hugo Chavez control the world's oil, this is what we are stuck with.
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A further note, these types of insults from SA is why it was APPALLING that GW had Abdullah to the ranch. The White House, okay, it's politics. But, we had been told the ranch was special which is why Arik was there. Is this more State Department "evenhandedness?"
Posted by: yogineocon on September 23, 2005 12:21 PM
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lighthouse on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain
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Gas sure is volatile right now. People are beating each other up in the streets.
Did somebaody tell them to ship just gas and forget the crude?
The State Department is headed by Rice, who started the war using her WMD degree and Bush; their answer is to keep going and invade Iran, etc.
Posted by: lighthouse on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain on September 23, 2005 02:14 PM
Saudi Minister Warns U.S. Iraq May Face Disintegration
By JOEL BRINKLEY, NYT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 - Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, said Thursday that he had been warning the Bush administration in recent days that Iraq was hurtling toward disintegration, a development that he said could drag the region into war.
"There is no dynamic now pulling the nation together," he said in a meeting with reporters at the Saudi Embassy here. "All the dynamics are pulling the country apart." He said he was so concerned that he was carrying this message "to everyone who will listen" in the Bush administration.
Prince Saud's statements, some of the most pessimistic public comments on Iraq by a Middle Eastern leader in recent months, were in stark contrast to the generally upbeat assessments that the White House and the Pentagon have been offering. [...]
Posted by Ted Belman at September 23, 2005 08:57 AM