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2004-02-08 Arabia
Kingdom ‘Will Not Tolerate Outside Interference’
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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2004-02-08 00:03|| || Front Page|| [11138 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 actually, the air conditioning, lack of mandatory training and opportunities for bribes are the envy of other countries
Posted by mhw 2004-2-8 12:24:54 AM||   2004-2-8 12:24:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The Folk Legends. Vee must march.
Posted by Lucky 2004-2-8 12:48:43 AM||   2004-2-8 12:48:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Great. Yawn. This is when the "police" come out from under the overpasses. They go everywhere with their lights flashing, stand around in intersections trying to look menacing and, generally, create traffic jams and make a nuisance of themselves. Everyone in the Eastern Province will be glad to see Rahman's ass when he heads back to his fucking palace - somewhere else.

As for interfering in someone else's internal affairs, no one does it better than the Saudis - cuz no one else has so much disposable bribe money available (that should have been used to educate kids or teach basic healthcare to ignorant citizens).

As for the Saudi Military being the envy of anyone, heh, mhw and Lucky have these clowns covered!
Posted by .com 2004-2-8 1:50:38 AM||   2004-2-8 1:50:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 ....the prince said .... the Saudi armed forces .... was the envy of many other countries.
For example:Ethiopia, Haiti, Sierra Leone,Somalia,Tanzania
Posted by GK 2004-2-8 9:18:32 AM||   2004-2-8 9:18:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 
Saudi Arabia will not allow any foreign power to interfere in its internal or political, educational and economic affairs ....

... and as a reciprocal measure we today announce that Saudi Arabia will no longer bribe foreign officials, lobby foreign governments, fund terrorists operating abroad or export our stupid fundamentalist education.
Posted by Mike Sylwester  2004-2-8 9:18:53 AM||   2004-2-8 9:18:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The envy of many countries? I have spent the last 37 years waiting for the Sodies defying Israel for a one on one confrontation instead of hiding behind Jordania.
Posted by JFM  2004-2-8 11:58:52 AM||   2004-2-8 11:58:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Never in the field of human conflict has so much money been spent with so little to show for it...
In the 1990s SA's expenditure/soldier supposedly exceeded $200,000, so I could well imagine SA's brave boys being the envy of many a third world squadie. Take a Ugandan soldier for example, he gets paid a pitance to chase around after the LRA, the Saudi soldier gets paid good money to sit on his arse & drink sugar-saturated tea, so you bet the Ugandan soldier envies the Saudis!
Posted by Dave 2004-2-8 5:27:29 PM||   2004-2-8 5:27:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 
Kingdom ‘Will Not Tolerate Outside Interference’
OK, no problem. We'll be glad to "interfere" from inside the "kingdom" - preferably with a large contingent of forces in Mecca, Medina, and Riyadh. (Don't know about Mecca or Medina, but Riyadh already has the infrastructure we need to support our forces.)

Glad to be of service. :-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-2-8 8:26:57 PM||   2004-2-8 8:26:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Ya an occupation of Medina and Mecca ought to get their attention. If we hear of so much as one bomb or terrorist act anywhere we can start dismantling a few buildings.
Posted by dataman1 2004-2-8 9:24:33 PM||   2004-2-8 9:24:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 In the 1990s SA's expenditure/soldier supposedly exceeded $200,000....
I can't help but wonder how much of that went to equipping and sustaining the armed forces and how much went to foreign contractors and to "commissions" at various levels.
Posted by GK 2004-2-8 10:14:28 PM||   2004-2-8 10:14:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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