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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (759105)	2/12/2007 6:08:22 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Score card? What for? Then enemy is the arab... how complicated is that?" <GGG> Apparently it's still a bit more complicated then you allow for, GZ. If 'the enemy is the arab' (as you say above), then that makes ALL of our official arab ALLIES in the region actually our enemies, right? So --- what are we DEFENDING THEM for? Why is Bush all so mush-mouthed when he talks about these 'great' 'allies' of ours? Why did his admin. see that EVERY REFERENCE to Saudi Arabia in the entire chapter of the 9-11 Commission's report on the attacks was blacked-out?????? Why is he standing back from crossing the border into PAKISTAN, (our other supposed 'ally') that created and is still protecting the Taliban? (And is, by the way, not even Arab. :-) Why are we protecting the Sunni Arabs from attacks by Shiites (& from Iran --- another place that is not populated by Arabs, by the way, GZ....) So... if it's so simple and all... not 'complicated', as you say... then HOW COME you ain't speaking out about Dubbya's misguided efforts to expend American blood and American national treasure to DEFEND these nasty 'Arabs' (that you say are 'our enemies') from their OTHER</1> enemies? And, if 'Arabs' are the enemies... then you are letting Pakistanis and Persians, etc., etc., 'off the hook', right? :-)

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (759105)	2/12/2007 6:10:25 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Putin offers NUCLEAR help for Saudis and Gulf Arab states: Russia could help Saudi in atomic energy-Putin 12 Feb 2007 19:26:22 GMT Source: Reuters alertnet.org By Souhail Karam RIYADH, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Moscow would consider helping Saudi Arabia with a possible atomic energy programme and that he hoped to build stronger ties with Muslim countries. "Russia is willing to look into cooperation opportunities in the area of atomic energy," Putin told Saudi businessmen, speaking through an Arabic interpreter. Saudi Arabia and fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, said in December they had ordered a study on a possible joint civil atomic programme. The announcement by the GCC, a loose economic and political alliance, raised concern of a regional arms race with analysts saying the bloc wanted to match Iran's nuclear programme. Russia has helped Iran set up a nuclear power plant. The United States suspects Iran's nuclear programme aims to develop weapons, a charge Tehran denies. Putin's trip, the first by a Russian leader to the kingdom, marks growing ties between Saudi Arabia and Russia after a visit to Moscow in 2003 by King Abdullah, then crown prince. Riyadh revived its ties with Moscow in 1990 as the Soviet era ended. They first established diplomatic ties in the 1920s. Putin accused the United States during a conference in Germany on Saturday of making the world a more dangerous place by pursuing policies aimed at making it the "one single master". "Russia is keen to improve cooperation with the Islamic world," Putin told the businessmen. Russia favours constructive engagement with Iran over its nuclear programme, pointing out that a tough line has failed to deter North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. "Russia hopes to see peace and stability in the region," Putin said during the visit to Saudi Arabia, aimed at boosting trade between the world's top two oil producers. SIX SATELLITES Earlier on Monday, Putin said Russia will launch six Saudi-made information satellites for Saudi Arabia this year. A senior official from King Abdulaziz Science and Technology City, a technology park in Riyadh, said five of the satellites would be for telecommunications and data transfer and the sixth will be for remote sensing. The satellites will be launched from a base in Kazakhstan. Saudi Arabia already has several media and telecoms satellites. The Russian leader, who left for Qatar earlier on Tuesday, said Saudi Arabia could benefit from Russia's expertise in gas exploration. In 2000, Russia's LUKOIL and Saudi Aramco launched an 80-20 percent joint venture called LUKSAR to explore and produce gas in an area of the Rub al-Khali desert. Trade exchanges between Saudi Arabia and Russia rose 230 percent from 2000 to 1.5 billion riyals ($400 million) in 2005, with Saudi exports accounting for a small fraction of them. Saudi businessmen blamed high Russian customs duties, which they said amounted to up to 200 percent, the absence of direct transport links and long procedures in Russian banks. Putin invited Saudi banks to open 100-percent-owned branches in Russia and said bilateral investments would rise after the Saudi Development Fund signed an agreement during his visit with two Russian state banks. (Additional reporting by Andrew Hammond in Riyadh and Moscow bureau)