Hello:

While I'm at it, why are we still friends with the Saudi's? Why did Bush invite them to a PEACE CONFERENCE, KNOWING that they wouldn't shake the hand of a Jew? What? You then expect them to make peace??

They're tyrants. Saudi women have NO rights. They get put in jail for GETTING RAPED. They be-head people. Worst of all, they support Wahhabism - the CRADLE of terrorism. I got more, but that’s enough for now.

The Saudi's remain our friends and ally. Out of the OTHER side of his mouth, Bush says words about spreading Democracy and Freedom. He thinks the world is fooled.

excon

I agree whole heartedly EXCON... you are preaching to the choir!! I can't figure out why that man does ANYTHING!!

"If the United States boosts defence spending in its quest to stop Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden's alleged terrorist activities, his family may be the unexpected beneficiary of that, media reports said. "Among its far-flung business interests, the well-heeled Saudi Arabian clan, which says it is estranged from Laden, is an investor in a fund established by Carlyle Group, a well-connected Washington merchant bank specialising in buyouts of defence and aerospace companies," The Wall Street Journal said in an investigative dispatch. It said "through this investment and its ties to Saudi royalty, the bin Laden family has become acquainted with some of the biggest names in the Republican Party." "In recent years, former president George H W Bush, ex-secretary of state James Baker and ex-secretary of defence Frank Carlucci have made the pilgrimage to the bin Laden family's headquarters in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). "Ex-president Bush makes speeches on behalf of Carlyle Group and is senior adviser to its Asian Partners Fund, while Baker is its senior counsellor and Carlucci is the group's chairman.