Prompted by Saudi Arabia’s warning to Cheney that they’ll support the Sunni’s in Iraq and the Saudi ambassador resigning at a moments notice, Randi Rhodes asked yesterday, “ what’s in it for Saudi Arabia to keep Iraq either in chaos or under their thumb?“
Prior to the invasion the Saudi’s saw the empty coffers and the rule of the royal family was in question. They were going broke. Look here.
Next, Bush does them a favor and lies us into a war. The cavalry rushes in to break Iraq.
Post-invasion , the Saudi economy is flourishing. The royals again hear the rustling of currency and they feel the rush of the flowing oil upon which their power depends. Look here.
Randi’s short answer to her own question says it best: “It’s the oil, stupid.”
“SA was already freaked out over the thought of Iraq being able to produce oil to capacity because the Saudis have ruined their country and needed to suppress global production in order to spike prices for themselves. And now, Saudi Arabia is enjoying budget surpluses with no external debt.”
Now, as Iran’s future brightens with the Shi’a influence in Iraq growing and as the U.S. beginning to seriously wake up to the inevitability of a withdrawal, the Saudi’s are getting pissed. They’ve been doing their best to keep it good and broken for some time now — 55 percent of the foreign insurgents in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia. That’s a significant MAJORITY. MSNBC reports that, “radical Saudi clerics urge them to go to Iraq to kill Americans.” They want to keep Iraq broken to serve their own interests, and the Bush administration knows it.
Why did we rush into a war of choice and why has the Bush administration been so incredibly, criminally, incompetent in Iraq? It’s in the name of friendship and a pact sealed by blood and oil. Bush and his local cronies made out like bandits while the Saudi economy boomed. All they had to do was stomach 25,000+ U.S. casualties, send hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to their death, drain our treasury, and sacrifice our security. What a deal.
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