Reply #127: Honestly? No. BushCo was in this for the OIL. Make no mistake. [View All]

He wanted to be able to play his little puppet Iraqis AGAINST his old pals, the balltwisting Saudis. That's why the Saudis are being so short-tempered with him. He probably also was lying like a rug about progress to them. Once Bandar "Sunny Side of Life" Bush was gone, old Turki probably got some less biased intelligence from other sources outside BushCo.

The Saudis would love peace and prosperity in the region, with THEM as the shining beacon of light at the center, generous to a fault in aiding other nations, benevolently charitable to the weak, poor, old and sick, and looked to for their wisdom and probity. But that's a pipe dream. They see those whacko Shi'as (I am speaking from their perspective, mind you--I've no dog in this fight) as determined to gain hegemony over the region, and they've always had their eye on the Holy Places of Meccah and Medina. The Saudis, 'ordained' guardians that they are, can't abide that attitude. And they don't want the <<<Persians>>>> to hold ANY sway over the ARAB world.

When Saddam The Secular ruled over the solid buffer state wedged nicely between the House of Saud and the Shi'a Persians, all was well, from the Saudi perspective. BushCo has FUCKED that up totally--he's like a drunken pal who has driven across your yard and the next guy's and knocked down that great big fine fence around the neighbor's house, and now, the awful neighbor's Doberman from two doors down can easily come across the yard and screw the living daylights out of your little poodle!