Whose oil is the "Iraqi" oil anyway? I worry a little about Saudi Arabia ...

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, opening a summit meeting of Arab leaders here yesterday, called the US military presence in Iraq "illegitimate" and warned that sectarianism could lead to all-out civil war.

He went on with the following: "In beloved Iraq, blood flows between brothers in the shadow of illegitimate foreign occupation and hateful sectarianism, threatening a civil war"

Admittedly, Saudi Arabia has sided with us as regards Iran's nuclear ambitions, but their concerns about Iraq can be spelled in two words:

(1) oil

and

(2) oil

But, besides realizing that the Saudis aren't going to stand aside and let the Shi'ite majority in Iraq grab the oil back from the Sunni minority there, I think that the Bush family is also going to soon (but drowsily) wake up to realizing exactly what country has had close relations with Al-Qaeda from about Al-Qaeda's birth.

Just ask yourself, "where was bin Laden born?" ... or ... "where were 15 of the 19 9-11 hijackers born?"

And then ask, "Are the Saudis Sunni or Shiite?"

Yup!

Having lived in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for almost a decade, I've had almost no doubt as to where this whole adventure that Mr. Bush has taken us on would end.

He should at least have read what his father thought about ultimately occupying Iraq!