To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (324490 ) 12/1/2002 10:06:52 PM From: Skywatcher Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670 Here's an answer....the WHINE House is so deep in Saudi crap it risks all of our lives....while making sure everyone in America is on full fear alert and making sure the civil liberties that make America great are taken into the Orwellian cellar: "...when Prince Bandar and his family dropped by the Bush ranch at Crawford three months ago. Bush must have known for the best part of a year that in the runup to Sept. 11, Bandar's wife, Princess Haifa, had been making regular transfers from her Washington bank account to a couple of known associates of the (9-11)terrorists.... ...The Saudi Embassy say they've only received queries about this matter from the media, not from the FBI. Odd, that. The federal government claims it needs vast new powers to track every single credit-card transaction and every single e-mail of every single American, yet a prima facie link between the (9-11)terrorists and Prince Bandar's wife isn't worth going over to the embassy to have a little chat about... ...Seven of the nine biggest backers of al-Qaida are Saudi and Riyadh has no attention of doing a thing about it, but the White House insists, as it did on Monday, that the Kingdom remains--all together now--''a good partner in the war on terrorism.'' The overwhelming majority of the detainees at Guantanamo are Saudi, but the new rules requiring fingerprinting of Arab male visitors to the United States apply to Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Sudanese, Lebanese, Algerians, Tunisians, Yemenis, Bahrainis, Moroccans, Omanis, Qataris, but not Saudis. You can pretty much bet they'll be fingerprinting British and Australians before the Saudis... ...One day the Democrats will stop sleepwalking over the cliff and realise that this is Bush’s weak spot, and they’ve got incriminating pictures and all that sycophantic audio. And, if the Dems don’t realise it, then John McCain will, shortly before he runs for president." suntimes.com CC