After the events of last night and hearing the denouncement of the terrorist attacks as of 2:40pm Eastern time, my question to you all is should we stay in Saudi Arabia? This recent attack affected many nations including the Saudis themselves.  :'(

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/05/13/saudi.blast/index.html

I am going to do a little more background checking before I post my exact thoughts on this subject since there are either rumors or facts that several of the royal families have been funding terrorism. So much information about this has circulated that then Mayor Rudolph Giuliani did not accept the millions gift that the visiting Saudi Prince offered seeing ground zero not long after 911 occured.

What are some of your thoughts?

 To the best of my knowledge, the US military was soon to be moving out of Saudi.

yep

we shouldn't stick around in Iraq much longer either.

Most of the reasons that Dubya used to INVADE Iraq could be said about Saudi Arabia. It is a very repressive society and there are many links to Al Qida and other terrorist groups. No, I don't believe they have WMD just like I didn't (and still don't) believe that Iraq has them. But, the U.S. have to play nicey-nice to them because of one thing-OIL! Yup, here it is again. The BIG "O." I have to say (am I sure it will probably p!ss off a few people) the U.S. goverment is a hypercrate! Ok, we toppled Hussain because he was an evil tyrant. But, what about all the other evil tyrants in the world? Don't you think that King Fahd oppress his people-especially women? I really do believe that the Saudi government had a role in Sept 11-it may have been indirectly but a role nevertheless. But because they have the oil, the U.S. has to be nice.



Cat

slowly but surely, we're beginning to see that this "war on terrorism" is unwinnable.