DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - U.S.A./SAUDI ARABIA: $20 BILLION WORTH OF WEAPONS TO SAUDI ARABIA SUPPORTS THE JIHAD

Saudi Arabia weapons deal supports jihad
By DIANA WEST

Boy, when it comes to Saudi Arabia, that Condi Rice and Bob Gates sure drive a tough bargain.

Visiting "the kingdom" - the grating, fairytale nickname for that oil-rich human rights pit - the U.S. secretaries of state and defense delivered a blunt message: If you keep fomenting and financing global jihad; if you keep teaching and preaching the eradication or repression of non-Muslims; if you keep trampling human rights, women’s rights, freedom of conscience and freedom of speech; and if you keep supporting Sunni insurgents in Iraq who are battling American troops, then the United States will be forced to act.

Yessir, you can bet your bottom petro-dollar. You Saudis keep doing all that bad stuff and Uncle Sam is going to … deliver $20 billion of cutting edge weaponry to you, ASAP.

That’ll fix them.

Or will it fix us? It’s easy to get things mixed up unless you remember the latest version of the Bush Doctrine: You’re either with us, or we sell you smart bombs.

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