Although Bush administration officials have frequently lashed out at Syria and Iran, accusing it of helping insurgents and militias here, the largest number of foreign fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq come from a third neighbor, Saudi Arabia, according to a senior U.S. military officer and Iraqi lawmakers.
About 45% of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security forces are from Saudi Arabia; 15% are from Syria and Lebanon; and 10% are from North Africa, according to official U.S. military figures made available to The Times by the senior officer. Nearly half of the 135 foreigners in U.S. detention facilities in Iraq are Saudis, he said.
So if you ask the question of why we do not go after Saudi Arabia you will just demonstrate your ignorance of how important Saudi oil is to Americas economy and of how close the Bush administration is to the Saudi royal family. They do not get any of the scrutiny or threats that Iran and Syria receive, even though there is very little, if any, evidence to suggest that those countries have anything to do with the insurgency.
And if you also take into account that fifteen of the nineteen 9-11 hijackers were also from Saudi Arabia, you might be able to come up with a fairly healthy conspiracy theory.
I can tell you that if even one of those hijackers had been from Iran we would have already bombed that country back into the stone age. But they were Saudi, so that country gets a free pass.
Are you pissed off yet?
well, ain't that somethin' , I mean aren't we suposed to be thinking they all are from Iran or something? well well....
ReplyDelete( am I pissed yet, OMG, of course, I been pissed since that lousy Nov nite in 2000 when we all realized we had been soooooo screwed....)