White House warns Saudis over machinations in Iraq

The extent of the deterioration in US-Saudi relations was exposed for the first time today when Washington accused Riyadh of working to undermine the Iraqi government.

The Bush administration sent a warning to Saudi Arabia, until this year one of its closest allies, to stop undermining the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki.

The US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and the defence secretary, Robert Gates, are scheduled to visit Jeddah next week. A diplomat in Washington said of the two governments: "There is a lot of bad blood between the two."

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The Bush administration, as well as the British government, is telling the Saudis, so far without success, that establishing a stable government in Iraq is in their interest too and that they stand to suffer if it collapses.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/saudi/story/0,,2136514,00.html

I hadn't realized it until you'd said it. Fat chance of it happening obviously.

boo boo is in way over his head on this one.

These people are truly in over their heads.

What are they going to do, take on the whole world? Watch for BIG compromises, huge concessions. Cuz that's all they got now.

DON'T forget Conda Liar we are 3.8% of the world's population. Are you SURE you can jerk around the other 96%?

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Bush-Cheney know that a strong shi'ite Iraq is even more of a threat than Saddam was. Keeping it in a state of organized chaos keeps the Iraqi govt pliable and the oil price high.

Now that's funny. :rofl: