Reply #19: The Saudis were OK with the war on Iraq... until bushco botched it

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Now, because Bush insisted on a democracy, the Shia are in control, and we clearly are not in control of the Shia. The Saudis are pissed off bigtime. They are funding the Sunni insurgency and have made statements in the past few weeks to the effect that if the US pulls out, they will (somehow) put troops into Iraq to support their Sunni brothers. Cheney was summoned to Riyadh to hear directly how unhappy the Saudis were regarding the direction the war is taking and the fact that it seems to them that the US is choosing the Shia side in the ethic cleansing that is happening. Just a day ago or so, a Sunni cleric in Saudi Arabia called for a Jihad against the Shia in Iraq (and the clerics in Saudi Arabia do no do such things without government approval these days). Now the Ambassador to the US is returning home.

Expect Saudis to do TWO MORE THINGS (the biggest guns they have)... they may join Iran in moving to a Euro based price for crude oil (that alone will tank our economy), and the other is to cut back on oil production. Either move could send the US (heavily overextended in foreign capital markets) into a deep recession or worse.

We cannot choose sides and we now can't just leave without putting some other force into Iraq to keep the majority Shia from butchering the minority Sunnis.

Way to go neocons. Thanks, George.