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2006-07-26 Arabia
Saoodi King Abdullah Fears Full-Scale War
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Posted by Steve White 2006-07-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 He's worried about the fragile Middle East stability... that keeps him in power.

You should've made peace with Israel way back when, Kingy. Then you'd have some sway with them now. But you're a sworn enemy of your own choosing, so fuck off, LOL.
Posted by Champ Angeger5024 2006-07-26 01:21||   2006-07-26 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 The Arabs are slow to gather, but when they do, they get stupid together. Minimally, I'd diplomatically tend to their fears, if I was the State Dept, especially after the recent Arab Summit where all the rich oil bastards and dictators caught up. They'res a big plot, maybe from Iran brewing the whole Middle East.
Posted by Jesing Ebbease3087 2006-07-26 01:27||   2006-07-26 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Fertilize and water their fears, is that what you mean, Jesing Ebbease3087?
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-26 09:41||   2006-07-26 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Exactly
Posted by Jesing Ebbease3087 2006-07-26 10:19||   2006-07-26 10:19|| Front Page Top

#5 They all feel the same way and for good reason. As soon as war breaks out, they want a cease fire. this is because most world governments are so fragile that a broad war will topple them.
What we should do to keep democracies from being toppled, is lock up the press for a decade or so.
Posted by wxjames 2006-07-26 10:41||   2006-07-26 10:41|| Front Page Top

#6 #sigh# As much as I hate to admit it wxjames, history has shown us time and time again that you can’t have a democracy without a free press. It’s like shaving with a double sided razor: you can’t trim your beard without one, but you’ll keep cutting yourself every day.
Posted by Secret Master 2006-07-26 11:06||   2006-07-26 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 huh?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-26 11:27||   2006-07-26 11:27|| Front Page Top

#8 I've been thinking about this for a long time.

"you can't have a democracy without a free press"

Which begs the question: Do we have a free press?

Yes, obviously they are "free" to print any damned thing they want, national security secrets, endless lies, distortions, factual omissions, editorial spin disguised as news, lionization of both hateful assholes such as those who sympathize with Hezb, the Taleban, and al-Qaeda as well as those who are obviously reality-challenged such as Cindy the Parasite Code Pink Tool, giving disproportionate coverage to the Socialist and Tranzi agendas while disingenuously bandying "disproportionate" about as a charge against Israel's attempt to live in peace, and promoting the agendas of the unelected self-styled and self-appointed forces of "progressivism" while daily demeaning the elected government leaders of this nation in a never-ending display of BDS dementia.

Yeah, they're "free" in the literal sense.

They're just on the other side.
Posted by Champ Angeger5024 2006-07-26 11:27||   2006-07-26 11:27|| Front Page Top

#9 They are 'free' to choose which side to be on (or to be on neither side).

They 'choose' to support terrorism, murder, and kiddie rape. Evidence: Beslan the Russian school where kids were murdered, raped, and killed and the MSM provided cover to the islamic terrorists - refusing to call them 'terrorists' or reporting that they were -each-and-every-one-of-them MUSLIMS.

They should be held responsible for their choice.
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-26 12:31||   2006-07-26 12:31|| Front Page Top

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