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11/12/01 09:33 PM: Saudis?
WASHINGTON – Saudi Arabia succeeded in pressuring President George Bush to reaffirm a U.S. pledge to help establish a Palestinian state.
U.S. officials said Saudi anger at the Bush administration prompted the president to revise his original speech to the United National General Assembly and include Washington’s support for a Palestinian state and a solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The original draft was to have dealt exclusively with the U.S.-led war against international terrorism.
“We are working toward a day when two states, Israel and Palestine, live peacefully together within secure and recognized borders, as called for by the Security Council resolutions,” Bush told the General Assembly on Saturday. “We will do all in our power to bring both parties back into negotiations. But peace will only come when all have sworn off forever incitement, violence and terror.”
Well, well, well. If it isn’t our good friend Saudi Arabia. Home of most of the 9/11 hijackers, and Osama bin Laden. Why should the Saudi’s, harborers of many terrorists, pressure us into doing anything? What happened to the “we make no distinction between the terrorists and the nations that harbor them.” Is that out the window now? What’s really going on here. Are we really at war with terrorism or is this just a joke? To me it seems like it’s so far just a joke. We need to stop whoring ourselves to the Saudi’s for their oil. Let’s get with it here.
