Re: I don't know what this world is coming to.

From: Eliyahu Rooff (lrooff_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/20/04 

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:36:14 -0700

"Steevo@my-deja.com" <steevo@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 02:12:44 GMT, "Susan Mitchell"
> <readthemessage@nobody.com> wrote:
>
> >Yes they hate us. But, it was not Iraq that flew in the planes it
was all
> >but 2 Saudi's.
> I didn't say Iraq did. No, it wasn't Iraq. I am not a big fan of the
> invasion of Iraq. But the invasion of Iraq or not has no relation to
> whether terrorists attack us. If it hadn't been that it would have
> been support for Israel, "generalized american imperialism" or some
> other excuse. We would have been attacked in any case.
>
> > You know, friends of the Bush family? You know, the ones we
> >flew home when we could not fly anywhere.
> Hardly. The official government of Saudi Arabia would like good
> relations with the west. But there are a number of people in the
> country and adjacent countries who don't. So what if we gave the a
> ride? They are not Al Quaida.
>
Don't make the mistake of overestimating our "friendship" with the
Saudis. We aren't their friends; we're their customers. We need their
oil, they need our money and our technology.

Eliyahu

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