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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (240138)	8/28/2007 3:27:26 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

True enuff but pakistan is a potential threat to iran and al quaeda ruled pakistan is a fear mullahs must have.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (240138)	8/28/2007 3:51:50 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Saudis are too worried about saving their own butts from their own people. They don't worry about nuclear Iran cuz we guarantee their security in exchange for...gasp...oil. The American word for that is MAD. Iran hit SA, America turn Iran to glass, slant drill from non-glowing desert to get Iranian ...gasp...oil...... The United States has had a special relationship with Saudi Arabia since the 1940's. After oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938, by Standard Oil of California, American oil men started to urge Washington to assume a degree of responsibility for the political stability and security of the region (Yergin, 1992). Consequently, in 1943 President Roosevelt declared that the "defense of Saudi Arabia was a vital interest to the United States" (Metz, 1992) and authorized Lend Lease assistance to King Ibn Saud. The alliance between the two countries was cemented during the historic meeting of President Roosevelt and King Ibn Saud aboard a United States warship in the Suez Canal in 1945 (Figure 1). With the onset of the Cold War, the United States foreign policy in the Middle East focused on denying Persian Gulf oil to its enemies while assuring the flow of oil to the West (Telhami et al., 2002). The Saudi-United States relationship expanded during the 1950's as both countries wanted to contain the Soviet influence in the Middle East. In 1951, under President Truman, the United States and Saudi Arabia signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement. Under this agreement the United States provided military equipment and training for the Saudi armed forces and established that Saudi Arabiaâ "territorial integrity and political independence" was a primary objective of the United States (Metz, 1992). pangea.stanford.edu How many terrorists do you think we are training in this group? You think TPTB will ever figure out terrorists do that sort of thing? One of the lessons from Nam they ignored, eh? Cuz they live in your lala world, where it all goes according to script, even if it didn't happen 40 years ago. Nope, doesn't work that way. You always need to throw the script away, cuz it never works out that way. Lockheed Martin earns billions training thousands to guard Saudi oil worldtribune.com