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| Saudi prince urges US to avoid a new Vietnam in Iraq |
| 2002-08-27 |
| Billionaire Saudi businessman Prince Al-Walid bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz urged the United States to avoid getting dragged into another Vietnam in Iraq. "I am one of the biggest investors in the United States, if not the biggest one, and I say this as a very close friend and ally of the United States," he said Tuesday, in an interview with CNN. Just oozing love and goodwill and friendship... "We don't want to have another Vietnam; we can't afford another Vietnam," stressed Walid, a nephew of King Fahd. He said the "V" word. We should all be so frightened. What he's really afraid of is that we'll have another Gulf War... He rejected criticism of Saudi Arabia's public stance against a new war to oust President Saddam Hussein. "It's the same position of almost all Arab countries, of almost all the world, that is to give more time to Iraq to abide by UN resolutions and not to attack. "I mean, it's only been ten years. Why rush things?" "I don't think that we have exhausted all the channels and all the possibilities to have Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi regime succumb to reality and accept the implementation of UN resolutions." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 A Sod-all saying that we must wait for Saddam to "succumb to reality"! I almost passed out laughing over that. The day we see the Islamists succumbing to reality is the day I go ice skating in Hell. |
| Posted by: Dee Bates 2002-08-29 04:07:01 |