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jps

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Let me ask you freakin', what interest does the US have in the
mideast
that's more compelling than ensuring the free flow of oil?

jps

Sand?

Bzzzt. Nope, got plenty of that. Try again.

Well, let's see....the Saudis are our single biggest customer for
weaponry.
The royals live in constant fear of their Wahhabi lunatic population,
even
though the government supports the very schools that produce them. The
more
we do to meddle in the Middle East, the more religious fanatics we ****
off,
the greater the perceived need for the Saudi royals to buy weapons. Lots
of
weapons. And, every prince involved with the purchasing of weapons skims
off a few million bucks a year, more than enough to pay for their fancy
digs
in France, Colorado, etc.*

It's just good business. Good for the defense biz, good for the real
estate
biz, good for the oil biz.

*We're currently investigating military personnel who took "commissions"
on
all sorts of things involving the war in Iraq. But, in Saudi Arabia, it's
legal and it's a tradition.

It's likely an insult to not skim, as if you're too good to take free
money.

I think we've misplaced a couple of containers of $100 bills over there
so I guess we understand something of Arab culture and tradition.

Ya know, there have been a few non-fiction books which included descriptions
of why and how we purchase the appropriate people in the Middle East. Sadly,
the guvmint chooses to hide this reality. Remember that interesting "bank
robbery" in Iraq a couple of months ago? The story died 24 hours after it
appeared. I e-mailed the author of one newspaper article, who said she knew
nothing more about it. Sounds like the source dried up and blew away.

I imagine those folks who're hired to keep rich kids names out of the
paper also work on plugging these types of leaks.