Thanks to a somewhat unrelated post of Southern Beale’s, I realized that unsuccessfully asking for more oil pumping wasn’t the only reason President Bush went to Saudi Arabia. He also went there to broker a deal to help the kingdom develop nuclear fuel sources for reactors. At face value (and it is not worth much in this case), that’s the same sorts of uses that Iran says they want for their nuclear fuel which we oppose giving them. The differences are that Iran admittedly hates us (remember, we’re the Great Satan to them) and Saudi Arabia was the birthplace of Osama bin Laden and most of the 9/11 hijackers.
I heard about getting turned down for more oil again, but nothing about the nukes on the news.
I heard about getting turned down for more oil again, but nothing about the nukes on the news.
Of course you didn’t. We sure got an earload of that “appeasement” nonsense, though. This happens with so much regularity that I wonder if it isn’t planned.
It reminds me of one of those famous Robert Smigel cartoons from SNL, the one where there’s a superhero named “Destracto” (or something like it) whose only mission is to destract the media with some silly celebrity news every time something really important we really should know about happens in Washington D.C.
It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
Jim V.:
Iran’s nuclear program is bad, Saudi Arabia’s is good. Also, those filthy towelheads in Tehran are using the claim that they only want to develop nuclear power for peaceful purposes while thinking that we’re too stupid to know that they’re energy needs are met by the lake of oil their country sits on. Saudi Arabia, otoh, ummmm…