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August 1, 2005
WB: King Kong
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All our friends in the Arab world are democratic, some are just more democratic that others…
Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 1 2005 21:30 utc | 2
We praise Democracy, but those in power envy Monarchy.
Posted by: aschweig | Aug 1 2005 21:38 utc | 3
Wonder what the founding fathers would think of all this fawning over a “King”.
Posted by: PeeDee | Aug 1 2005 21:41 utc | 4
Sickening but predictable. Condy and Co appear incapable of understanding that just because a compliant US media fails to challenge the continual paradoxes presented by the difference between their words and actions that this doesn’t apply outside the US and that the paradoxes are spurring insurrection by adding salt to ME wounds.
Of course that presupposes that any of the statements Condy and Co make are directed anywhere other than to US domestic consumption.
One can’t help but speculate on whether the hurried recess appointment of Bolton is somehow connected to Fahd shuffling off. Apparently Bolton was careening down UN corridors with 2 hours of Bush’s announcement.
Either US dependence on Saudi Oil or Bush family connection to Saudi enterprise has meant that US/Saudi relations aren’t characterised by the ‘Massa/boy” relationship generally favoured by repug ‘diplomacy’. Perhaps Bush needs Bolton in place so that they can try a bit of Saudi headkicking for a change. Fahd’s administration was just too able to allow this in the past.
If Bolton does publicly and simultaneously knee the UN in the nuts whilst he headbutts the Saudis it would silence internal criticsm of the Bolton appointment and garner support for repugs no matter whether the eventual outcome was long term good for the US.
Posted by: Debs is dead | Aug 1 2005 22:32 utc | 7
Ah, how sweet the smell of inelastic demand to the awakening oligarch.
Posted by: Jassalasca Jape | Aug 1 2005 23:47 utc | 8
Hmm. If Bush is an Oda Nobunaga figure, with grand eclectic visions but a bit of trouble putting it all together, better watch out for what comes next.
Posted by: Jassalasca Jape | Aug 2 2005 0:03 utc | 9
Is it my old eyes, or are these two ‘kings’ wearing the same kind of shoe? Thick-soled? Not that it means a darn thing… just looked strange to me. [Plus the fact that Dubya’s feet never touch the ground at any time… what’s up with that?
Posted by: crone | Aug 2 2005 1:06 utc | 10
Is it me, or is GWB just about the worst-dressed “Little Big” man in Christendom. And what’s with the holding hands? When will the nightmare end……………..
Posted by: Bollox Ref | Aug 2 2005 1:29 utc | 11
And he is the Custodian of the same “Two Holy Mosques” that some Republicans feel we should vaporize with nukes in the event of a failure of our homeland security?
Posted by: col.klink | Aug 2 2005 3:07 utc | 12
ME AND MY SAUDIS
(apologies to the late Harry Nilsson)
Me and my Saudis
Never drive Audis
Wherever we go
Everyone knows
It’s me and my Saudis
Me and my Saudis
Like a monarchy
Wherever we go
Everyone knows
It’s me and my Saudis
And in the morning when I throw up
He may be gone, I don’t know
And we fake it just to make up
I’ll carry on, it’s quite a thrill
{refrain}
Me and my Saudis
(do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do)
We’re never pouty
Wherever we go, every one knows
It’s me and my Saudis
Me and my Saudis(5X)
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Onkel Robert Breaks Wind (Again)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2005
(AP) Columnist Robert Novak broke wind again Monday with a deafening thunderclap, about his deliberate and willful disclosure of a covert undercover CIA operative’s identity, defending himself against accounts that he was twice
warned not to publish it by BushCo oilficials, including Karl (The Mouth) Rove.
In a syndicated stank like a feedlot in August, Novak did not dispute that former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow told him he should not print the covert officer’s name, Valerie Plame. (nice split double-negative infinitive!) But Novak reasserted that no CIA official ever told him that Valerie Plame Wilson’s disclosure would endanger her or anybody else, (even though Ian Fleming made that perfectly obvious to anyone who speaks even ESL English, with his famed James Bond spy series.)
“That’s why I said ‘Joe Wilson’s wife’, get it?” Novak b-b-bretted out a juicy one to reporters, that soon cleared the room with its oniony reek.
“I never actually used her full NOC name. The Fed’s can’t touch me on the Secrecy Act laws!”
Wilson wrote, “What I Didn’t Find In Africa,” about the falsified “Yellow Cake” documents, and asked the question: “Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs to justify an invasion?”
Eight days later, rolling is his own excrement, Novak wrote an assassination piece in which he disclosed Plame’s CIA identity, saying she was responsible for sending her husband to Niger.
CIA officials speculate Novak’s disclosure, and Karl Rove’s planted leak to Novak in retribution against Wilson, may have brought down the largest US spy cell in the Middle East, investigating the oil region’s huge money slush deals between Saudi shieks and OBL’s terrorist cells before 9/11.
Karl (The Mouth) uncharacteristically could not be reached for comment, hiding out in his North Carolina mountain retreat named ‘Vogelfrei’, a white-supremacist reference to a widely-rumored Nazi brigade of assassins known as “Werewolves”.
But representatives for the American Nazi Party loudly disclaimed any coincidence between Novak and Rove’s Werewolves and the US Nazi movement.
“They’re SS-wannabe’s, not the real Wehrmacht.”
Posted by: lash marks | Aug 2 2005 5:35 utc | 14
Hey! A little humor.
MJS, nice to see you in this neck of the woods.
lash marks, that be the blackest of black.
And so I’m takin bets on Bush comming out tomorrow and sayin’ he
really believes (his personal friend) “Raffie” Raphael Palmeiro when he says he did’nt know he was takin’ steroids. Sounds like medal of freedom material to me.
Posted by: anna missed | Aug 2 2005 7:14 utc | 15
as’ad abukhalil delivers the angry arab eulogy for king fahd today (8/2) on democracynow
Posted by: b real | Aug 2 2005 15:55 utc | 16
If you were to design a world for a book/movie/game, could you do better to guarantee world-blazing conflicts than putting the holy shrines of one of the world’s biggest religions in the same country that sits on top of a third of the most vital raw material of the industrial world, and on on top of that let it be ruled by a medievial absolute monarchy?
The only hope for Saudi Arabia becoming a decent country is for a prince as shrewd as Maria-Theresa Habsburg, as cunning as Catherine the Great, as willing to modernise and reform as the Meiji Emperor, as democratic as Juan Carlos I of Spain, and as beloved of his people as caliphe Harun al-Rashid to access the throne.
Don’t colour me optmistic on Saudi Arabia’s prospects.
Posted by: victor falk | Aug 2 2005 17:43 utc | 17