11-30-2010, 12:51 PM
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Reformed Know-Nothing
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MoCo, MD
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
Who's your source? Gaol for you!I see that King Abdullah is a real player in international politics, outside of oil 
Iraq is far from played out and should become a regional power again in its' own right. Eventually.
Hell Abdullah & Imadinnerjacket should be worried about a freer, resurgent Iraq - it's a bad examble for those dictatorships. Folks might get uppity.
Pete
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/wo...platter&st=cse
On page 2, In December 2005, the Saudi king expressed his anger that the Bush administration had ignored his advice against going to war. According to a cable from the American Embassy in Riyadh, the king argued “that whereas in the past the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Saddam Hussein had agreed on the need to contain Iran, U.S. policy had now given Iraq to Iran as a ‘gift on a golden platter.’ ”
As for Abdullah's knowledge of the Mideast, I dare say he knew quite a bit more than Dubya.
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