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To: redfish who wrote (30319)	2/18/2004 3:22:29 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793731

Nadine addressed that concern indirectly. Other arab states were forced to make choices. Libya gave up wmds. The Saudis are now fighting the terrorists, however reluctantly. Are you more concerned with punishing the saudi leaders and quadaffi for that matter or effectively getting them to change policy in dealing with the terrorists? Yes i would like to nail their hides to the wall some day too, but war called for this tactic. Mike

To: redfish who wrote (30319)	2/19/2004 12:11:50 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793731

Except, of course, for the Saudis, who financed Bin Laden and who actually flew the planes into the buildings I have already mentioned some of the difficulties of our co-dependent relation with the Saudi Royals. One I didn't mention before was that we had no freedom of movement regarding the Saudis because we needed our bases there (which btw was Osama's original casus belli, infidels on the holy soil, etc). Why did we need our bases there? To protect the Saudis from Saddam. Now we don't need our bases there, and they have been moved to Qattar, Kuwait and Iraq.