Before they get some of those nukular weapon thingies and hand ’em over to the terrists:
BERLIN, MARCH 29 : Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear programme, with help from Pakistani experts, the German magazine Cicero reports in its latest edition, citing western security sources.
It says that during the Haj pilgrimages to Mecca in 2003 through 2005, Pakistani scientists posed as pilgrims to come to Saudi Arabia in aircraft laid on by the oil-rich kingdom.
Between October 2004 and January 2005, some of them took the opportunity to “disappear” from their hotel rooms, sometimes for up to three weeks, it quoted German security expert Udo Ulfkotte as saying.
Then again, these are two of our bestest allies in the crusade against oil rich Middle Eastern states the Greater War on Terror. So what if one is the current residence for Al Qaeda’s leadership (Pakistan) and the other (Saudi Arabia) is the primary source of its finances. We can’t go invading our good buddies, now can we?
That’s what I thought.
Never mind.
Silly you! We only invade dangerous rogue nations like Iraq and Graneda.
Don’t forget Panama!
too fast on the draw Steven. Too fast on the draw.
Yes. I had to suffer withdrawal symptoms, lol.
It’s really not something to joke about or use sarcasm.
The United State is now fighting evrybody in Iraq, Shiites and Sunnis alike and is demanding the resignation of the elected leader, Jaafari.
What this means is the war might and probably will expand. You will see attacks on iran, Syria, the Kurds will fight with Israel and the US against the Shiites all around them, the Sunnis battling all those around them whatever country they are in.
This is beyond a mess it’s a formula for a world war.
Bush is a disturbed person. It’s not funny. He doesn’t care. He believes he’s on a mission from God. He is delusional. He is not a puppet of corporations when he extends the war like this. He is simply a madman.
We cannot allow this to continue.
I see that the Immigrants do the jobs “that Americans don’t want to do”….LIKE PROTESTING! Perhaps the lazy Americans will be saved by the people who they don’t want crossing their border.
It seems our only hope is the immigrant population and their registered voter families who might be able to save us from WW!!!.
Any influx of Mexicans is an upgrade for the American population. It enhances the quality of people. They are a more substantial people than shallow Americans. And they can help and are doing so indirectly with this war in Iraq.
Seriously–no joke. They’ve got it coming, big time.
-Alan
slacker, I’ve missed your hawkish interventionist voice around here.
I would have preferred our troops in Kuwait had gotten disoriented and invaded southwest instead of northwest.
But then we’d have to provide security for the Hajj, and I don’t think that would go over too well…you know…with the pilgrims.
This is a rather unfortunate but predictable outcome of Bush’s foreign policies.
We’ll know things have gotten REALLY BAD when we start hearing about Germany and Japan considering nuclear arms. Both of these countries have a well know public aversion to nukes, but enough time has gone by, and the world has changed enough that they may very well re-arm if that what it takes. Japan especially will start butting heads with China in the future.
It would appear after the India deal that there is no real downside to having nukes anymore, and the upside is it seems to be the best protection against invasion.
I have no idea whether this story is true or not – I think I read about rumours of Pakistan/Saudi cooperation at least 2 years ago in the Washington Times, so maybe it is. Or maybe it’s the same unsubstantiated rumours recirculating. I don’t know.
Regardless, I must admit that when I read a news story about one of “the Islams” and their nuclear machinations, my first reaction these days is not “Ohmygod they’ve got the bomb”, but “Who is spreading this story and do they have an ulterior motive for wanting me to believe this?”
Just from a quick Google search, the “German security expert” cited, Udo Ulfkotte, is described as a “controversial journalist” (apparently for his hostile view of the “Muslim menace” in Europe), who allegedly has unhealthily close ties to the German equivalent of NSA.
He also seems to be a little bit conspiracy-minded, having published the claim in 1997 that FOIA documents allegedly proved Glenn Miller’s plane crash was faked to hide the fact that Miller died while visiting a prostitute in Paris. But then when asked to back up his claims, said that his info actually came “from German intelligence specialists in an off-the-record conversation”…
As I said, I don’t know if this story is true, but skepticism is my default setting these days. After all the lies about WMDs in Iraq, and the hyping up of the alleged Iranian nuclear threat, I need to see something more than anonymous “western security sources” cited by a journalist who might himself be in bed with a Western intelligence agency before I will get my knickers in a twist over the evil Saudis and their nukes.