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grl2watch

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Fri Jun-18-04 02:42 PM
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29. As terrible as it sounds, I'm for the house of Saud

There was a wonderful piece on truthout.com called Iraq,1917,
about the Bristish 'liberation' of Iraq after WWI.

One of the points made by Gertrude Bell was that the handover of sovereignty could not work because there was no entity which could
assume that responsibility.

I am not an expert on Saudi Arabia, but I don't see any
other stabilizing influence other than the house of Saud.
Could we really countenance bin Laden supporters as the
legitimate state power?

BTW, I'm from Charlotte, now in exile.

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