Saudi calls Bush legacy ‘sickening’ Mideast policy needs to change, prince says.

[DogPoundPup]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia’s ex-ambassador to Washington said former President George W. Bush left a "sickening legacy" in the Middle East and warned that U.S.-Saudi relations would be at risk if the Obama administration doesn’t change America’s policy in the region.

Prince Turki al-Faisal’s unusually tough words were the latest blunt assessment by the Saudi royal family that prospects for Arab-Israeli peace are growing dim unless dramatic policy changes are made.

Turki said he strongly promoted the Arab-Israeli peace process in his decades as a public servant. But after Israel’s three-week assault in the Gaza Strip, the prince said, "these pleas for optimism and co-operation now seem a distant memory," he said in a Financial Times op-ed published Friday.

The kingdom has resisted calls for a holy war against Israel, "but every day this restraint becomes more difficult to maintain," he added.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2009/Jan/20090125News029.asp

[cali]

1. what hypocrites. they are. years and years of sucking up to bushco

and they feel compelled to attack Obama right off the bat.

[bemildred]

2. The Saudi's have their own problems with internal unrest. nt

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[Vegasaurus]

4. Saudi arabia is one messed up country

and like that joker Gaddafi and his two cent commentary, nothing that those bunch of human rights abusers in Saudi Arabia say will mean a thing.

They should get their own house in order, like letting women drive, be educated, and stop being owned by men.

[ohio2007]

5. Well Humpty Dumpty, you just sit on that wall and tell it like it is

UR azz has got to fall