U.S., Saudis play same old game

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The Bush administration has concluded the Saudi royal family may not be able to suppress the Islamist rebellion much longer.

Some neoconservatives are urging the U.S. to establish direct rule over Saudi. Washington is also discreetly trying to cultivate non-Islamic opposition groups. A military coup appears difficult, since the army is denied ammunition and watched by a Bedouin tribal militia known as the White Army. U.S. armed forces are ready to protect the royal family.

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The Saudi royal family and many U.S. Republican Party grandees are joined at the hip.

A dense network of business partnerships ties the Bush family, Washington's powerful Carlyle Group, and the military-industrial complex to the Saudi royals.

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http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2005/08/07/1162633.html

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1. This wouldn't come under the heading of.........

"tell me something I don't already know". The bushs and sauds have been in bed together forever. In my opinion there isn't a larger threat to national security than that relationship, and from our own president! The most dangerous "friends" this country has ever had, and bush blows them at every opportunity.