(2007-03-30) — Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, addressing an Arab summit in Riyadh yesterday, called the U.S. occupation of Iraq “illegitimate…a relic of medieval times when unelected monarchs ruled their vassals by decree.”
“How is the U.S. occupation of Iraq any different from feudalism?” King Abdullah asked rhetorically. “The Iraqi people did not elect George Bush. He is not accountable to them. He rules from his white palace, doing as he pleases and they must simply endure and comply.”
The Saudi king added that “it’s hard to believe in our progressive 21st century that the United Nations would allow a member state to oppress people like this. In my prayers, I ask Allah to hasten the day when the Iraqi people rise up and throw off the shackles of this antiquated system of governance, and declare their God-given right of self-determination.”
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1 Scott Ott // Mar 30, 2007 at 7:07 am
Saudi King Slams U.S. Occupation as ‘Medieval Relic’…
by Scott Ott(2007-03-30) — Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, addressing an Arab summit in Riyadh yesterday, called the U.S. occupation of Iraq “illegitimate…a relic of medieval times when unelected monarchs ruled their vassals by decree.”“How is t…
2 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 30, 2007 at 7:19 am
God Bless America
3 camojack // Mar 30, 2007 at 7:36 am
People who live in glass houses…should get changed in the basement.
4 Darthmeister // Mar 30, 2007 at 8:03 am
I guess King Abdullah and his ilk are speaking from experience … as the conquerors of Christian lands a thousand years ago!
5 conserve-a-tips // Mar 30, 2007 at 8:46 am
Camojack, those of us in “tornado alley” know what happens to people who live in glass houses - they get blown away - if you get my drift.
In defense of the King’s speech, I read it again just a few minutes ago and I am not sure that he is referring to the US. He made the following statement: “In beloved Iraq, blood is being shed among brothers in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and ugly sectarianism threatens civil war,” That could just as easily be referring to foreign fighters coming in from Iran and Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah who are wreaking havoc “among brothers”. Of course, the drive-by press is automatically assuming that he means the US, but I am not so sure.
But good piece anyway, Scott!
6 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 30, 2007 at 9:01 am
Thanks to our (the United States of America) “nice guy”, politically correct, give a hand-out to every hand out, benevolent-to-a-fault attitude toward everyone (friend and foe) on this planet, everyone (friend and foe) thinks we are weak and that they (individually and corporately) have us by the short hairs.
Maybe it is time to show them that they need us a whole lot more than we need them-that we could do without them quite easily (not that it would be “easy”).
Imagine the bandwagon-jumping if we were to stop all imports/exports. Imagine the contrite, obsequious begging and pleading for a space on our wagon.
We could, quite easily, conquer and rule the world; yet, we choose not to. These posturing ingrates should come to realize this stone-cold fact.
7 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 30, 2007 at 9:15 am
If Saudi Arabian King Abdullah doesn’t like the U.S. as a liberator then they can opt for Russian rule or N. Korea slam dunk poverty. Both, I am sure, would have only the best of intentions for Arab earl, er oil.
8 Shelly // Mar 30, 2007 at 9:32 am
Did the King mention Club Gitmo? Because our terrible treatment of the terrorists being held there has reached an all-time low:
Guantanamo Bay - “War on terror” detainees at Guantanamo are avid Harry Potter readers and eagerly await the next book in the series featuring the schoolboy wizard, the camp librarian says.
While religion tops the reading lists of the overwhelmingly Muslim detainees, Harry Potter was a big favourite, said the chief librarian at the US-run prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“When you get to fiction, definitely Harry Potter,” said the librarian, who would only give her first name, Maggie.
The camp has even pre-ordered the next instalment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, which is due out later this year.
“They’re all waiting for number seven to come out,” she told reporters.
The humanity.
9 conserve-a-tips // Mar 30, 2007 at 9:37 am
Shelly, wow…I bet the Mullahs are croaking over that reading material. Witches, indeed!
10 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 30, 2007 at 9:42 am
RE: #8~~
Shelly~~
Yes. I saw that.
I don’t suppose they force those poor guys to wait for the less-expensive paperback-that would be just too cruel.
I did learn one interesting thing, though: Apparently, Muhammad was okay with witchcraft and such; even though Almighty God isn’t.
11 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 30, 2007 at 9:45 am
conserve-a-tips
I finally figured out my route to the Will Rogers state. I will lasso the next whirlwind and I’ll ride her down Okie way.
You heard tell of Pecos Bill, well Buckeye Shelly (sorry to the other Shelly, but nicknames are what they are) will show him a thing or two about riding the storm.
One good swing of the rope and a little steady hold of my powerchair. Only problem is our whirlwinds generally go north…but I will work on that.
Hello Algore, can you help me out here. No carbon used in this venture.
12 Shelly // Mar 30, 2007 at 9:48 am
Buckeye Shelly, good luck with that!
Tarheel Shelly
13 boberinyetagain // Mar 30, 2007 at 10:20 am
Always good to hear from the beacons of human rights, them Saudis.
At least from the men, aren’t they all that matter?
14 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 30, 2007 at 10:22 am
Egad. I’m down here in the D/FW area and just took a look at the radar-looks like it’s going to get ugly here this afternoon. Yesterday wasn’t so bad, just some much-needed rain (at least here in Arlington which always seems to get bypassed). We always get the trailing end of what OK gets full-blast.
I see over there in NM, at the back end of the storm-front, there is ice and snow-brrr. It’s 70 degrees here now at 1015 CDT and supposed to drop to the low 60s this afternoon.
But, that’s okay-it’ll be 100 degrees in a month or so.
Just call me Buckeye (expatriate Columbusite) Jameson.
15 Darthmeister // Mar 30, 2007 at 11:05 am
Terror In Our Midst … the vast majority of which is happening in our most liberal and Democratic parts of the country.
Liberals, please don’t condemn me since I’m only using your kind of “historical analysis.” What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right?
16 rv // Mar 30, 2007 at 11:15 am
Most excellent post, Scott.
It has a ring of authenticity but when you think about it, there’s a “whaaat?!”
I like subtlety — you’re really good at it.
In contrast, it seems that most moonbats and their ilk have all the subtlety of a rampaging Tyrannosaurus.
17 boberinyetagain // Mar 30, 2007 at 11:21 am
Hank, where have I heard those thoughts before??
Oh, that’s right, I point it our often. Those are real threats from real sources, right where we can see them. Do we worry about those? A bit, perhaps, but generally no.
But conservatives love to try to scare us into action in foreign lands to guard against unseen (and not going to be seen) boogiemen. Why?
We can ignore the real, right in front of us threat but get tremendously worked up against the “maybe/could be” threat.
Thanks for backing me up for once, quite sporting of you
18 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 30, 2007 at 11:43 am
JamesonLewis3rd
Prayers going up for your neck of the woods. We are soon to enter into that time of year, but as soon as next week they are still calling for a rain snow mix. sigh
19 everthink // Mar 30, 2007 at 11:52 am
BEERME ~ This one is for you,
“Not even as much threat as a wild child from Detroit, just hanging out and enjoying the seventies as they unfurled upon the inner-city scene. Yeah, I saw plenty of action! I heard shots fired in anger, while I dreamed of beer.” Beerme
I just can’t quite let this go by. I bet a “Wild child” (I guess that’s you) from Detroit must have been dodging bullets all his life, right? Did you hear’em whistle as they went by your ear Spankie? Word, Detroit was never that bad, even now; and Lapeer is not Detroit! Most “wild children” have had some brush with the law, if not how wild could they be? If I am right, you work at a low to medium level security correctional institution (dull and boring, I bet!). To do that, you can’t have more the most minimal criminal record. Not a very dangerous job either, Barney. I went to your Blog Site were I expected “leather and scars” in a burned out inner city house. Instead I saw you, (I guess) and your Docker clad “homies”; a group of beer connoisseurs, sipping beer in a house that does need painting.
Beerme, I grew up in Detroit, and while circumstances caused me to attend many public schools in the city of Detroit, I attended Cleveland Intermediate School where I was in an 8 to 1 minority, and later Detroit Pershing which had, at the time, the largest enrollment in the city. I was in the lower east side of Detroit when the 1967 riots began, (you may have even heard of them in LaPeer). Then, in the 1968 King Riots, I worked in the area Piquette, and Beaubien. A gangster like you must know Detroit Police Headquarters is at 1300 Beaubien.
Shots are much less often fired in anger, than fear. I have been fearful. So, “WILD CHILD” just keep dreaming of beer, and leave me be,
ET
20 GnuCarSmell // Mar 30, 2007 at 1:23 pm
C-A-T #5 - Excellent observation! A gold star for you.
The Saudi’s fear and loathe the Shi’ite Iranians, but know the U.S. is their most reliable ally. My guess is that some pinhead translator took an Arabic word and used the English “occupation” to give the story an anti-American spin. This kind of subtle deception is an art form for the MSM.
21 Darthmeister // Mar 30, 2007 at 1:36 pm
ET, why do you denigrate what other people do or the relatively normal lives they’ve achieved? I’m willing to bet we all have had to overcome obstacles to get where we are today. You just insulted Beerme and then to add insult to injury you blathered: So, “WILD CHILD” just keep dreaming of beer, and leave me be,.
Beerme does leave you be it’s just that you can’t leave us be, dear troll. Beerme has been a perfect gentlemen in coming to the aid of his friends here as Scrappleface when they are ceaselessly attacked by rampaging trolls.
BTW, we all have stories to tell my arrogant thorn in the flesh. I and my dad have been shot at by some hillbilly trash who thought he and his drinking buddies owned the countryside, and then they saw me unsling my .30-06 and my dad his .257 Weatherby magnum they jumped in their pickup truck and skeddadled. Several years later I had to pull down on someone with my .45 Auto at 2 a.m. when loud laughing and pounding at my front door woke me up. I yelled to them what they would get if they came through the door. Next thing I heard was squealing tires. Fortunately both incidences didn’t require me to fire in anger.
When I was growing up, my family was lower middle-class. My dad had to hunt geese, duck, dove and rabbit down at Galveston Bay to put meat on the table some weeks. We lived across the street from the “coloreds” and my brother and I were the only two white kids who spend hour upon hour playing sandlot baseball with our black friends in the endless summers of La Marque, Texas. Color means nothing to me, attitude does.
I don’t say this to denigrate any experiences you may have had growing up, but I would think the vast majority of us weren’t raised in homes with silver spoons in our mouths either. I was the target of junior high “gangs” who saw me as some nerdy jock but that stopped when in a moment of blind rage and exasperation I swung around and grabbed the ringleader by the front of his shirt when he bumped into me one day, slammed him into the wall with his feet six inches off the ground and screamed if he and his punks ever bumped into me in the hallway again I was going to personally take him out. Fortunately a teacher saw the whole thing and stopped it before anything else could happen. We were both sent to the principals office and after he busted our butts and called our parents he leaned over to me and winked, “Good job, just don’t do it again.”
I had seen fear in the boy’s eyes so I knew I had won and I was never bothered again by ANYONE through the rest of my school years because of that one incident. In fact some years later Tommy straightened out and we were mutually respectful of one another in High School. Maybe he hated his name and then got used to it, I don’t know.
Yeah, yeah, get out the hankerchiefs.
22 Shelly // Mar 30, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Darth, imagine what kind of person ET must really be, that his favorite thing to do is insult people. With that as a hobby his life/psyche can’t be giving him much.
23 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 30, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Umm, some of us whiteys have lived in uncomfortable situations. I used to live on the hip East side of Cleveland and to get to my apartment from University Circle you had to walk up a long hill, called Little Italy. The graffiti on the brick walls was white power.
To the Italians-blonds with fair skin was not white power, but instead Olive skin with dark hair.
I would ride my ‘74 450 Honda up and down Euclid Avenue, which is/was black with much less fear of the folks of that area before I would walk through Little Italy on my own.
I lived in LA during the Rodney King riots and my male friend had his business office right dab in S. Central.
I can count enough exploits in my lily white life, but for those stories you gotta wipe away the cobwebs at Shelly’s Cafe (long neglected) Cafe
24 woodnwheel // Mar 30, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Scott:
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’ve had a real burden for the people of Saudi Arabia for at least the last couple of years. I think now, while I read “Prayers for the Assassin” (if you don’t know what I’m referring to, read this thread), I’m going to pull out Jean Sasson’s book “Princess” (she acts as ghostwriter for a member of the Saudi royal family) or one of my other books on Wahhabism.
25 conserve-a-tips // Mar 30, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Neverthink, what particular attribute makes you visualize that you are more special than anyone else? Is it the ‘feeling the victim’ part?
There is not one soul on this earth who hasn’t had some time of his life to be unbearably difficult. John Edwards and his wife certainly don’t know about the scenarios you lay out (as if your experiences make you the D.H. Lawrence of today) in their 28,000 sq. ft. home with wealth that you and I will never see, but I can assure you that neither you nor I would want to trade places with them right now because of the journey on which they must embark, called Cancer. And Joni Eriksen-Tada has quite a bit of money and safety because of her life’s work, her books, her speeches, etc., but I’ll bet you a steak at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse that you would take your upbringing over hers, since hers, since age 17, has been centered around paralysis from the neck down.
People like you amaze me. Instead of thanking God for every single day and experience you have, no matter good or bad, you whine and groan and point fingers and covet and point fingers - oh - did I say that twice? And point fingers.
There is a quote - If you don’t like something then try to change it and if you can’t change it, then change your attitude.
26 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 30, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Another funny-in a pathetic sense:
Now that Power Line has linked to this reminder, it will probably disappear (accidentally, of course).
Fish out of water ain’t got nothin’ on the Democrat party when it comes to flippin’ and a-floppin’. (I just flashed myself back to my childhood-Little Richard’s “Slippin’ and a-Slidin’” and Dusty Springfield’s version of the Bacharac/David tune “Wishin’ and Hopin’”-I’m getting sooooooooo ooooooooold, wah)
27 Darthmeister // Mar 30, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Mmmmmm … Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. Can I get it on the bet even though I’ll lose, c.a.t.? They have ‘em up in Chi-town.
A 450 Honda Ms RightWing? Why do I see you as a Nash Metropolitan girl slamming those gears and double-clutching yer way up the hills?
28 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 30, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Here’s how the Democrat party takes care of the really pressing issues facing the United States of America today-in the here and now.
29 boberinyetagain // Mar 30, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Jameson, the Democrats are surely good at one thing. Making themselves appear petty and foolish.
That should count for something
30 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 30, 2007 at 3:34 pm
31 Beerme // Mar 31, 2007 at 8:47 am
I lived in Detroit during the riots of 1967. I lived in the same general neighborhood of Mr. ET, also. Apparently (if his word can be taken), we experienced many of the same social dynamics. At the time of the riots, I lived in the Pershing High School area. My High School was 85% non-White. I moved to Lapeer in 1988.
I don’t need to build my “street-cred”, mainly because it is inconsequential. The constant “chickenhawk” mantra is more of the same macho nonsense that requires young people now in the cities, to one-up each other in violent acts to become more “real”. I work with these individuals every day and it is a frustrating and wearisome attitude to deal with. I am glad to be out of that city and to have a comfortable, middle-class existence (even though the house could use some paint).
What I do wonder about, is the psychology of an individual who comes to a conservative parody site-a veritable echo-chamber of like-minded individuals-to argue an opposite viewpoint in a petulant and vulgar manner, over and over again for months and years. What motivates this behavior? Does this individual have nothing better to do with his time? Does he think he is changing anyone’s opinion or does he simply wish to prove to the dummies, here, that he is the smartest one? Perplexing.
In order to respond to the many points about prison and “brushes” with the law, ET would need a clue about these things. We cannot communicate on these topics because he is ignorant about them and I’m not going to be his educator. Besides, he doesn’t want to communicate he wants to berate (see psychological profile above).
Beerme, I grew up in Detroit…
Not yet. You still have some growing up to do.
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