A Reason Why Bush Insists on Staying in Iraq

[illinoisprogressive]

Hoffmania offers this point of view. bush is staying because of the Saudi's
This makes alot of sense.
They have this to offer as a reason for thinking so.

Saudi Arabia believes the Iraqi government is not up to the challenge and has told the United States that it is prepared to move its own forces into Iraq should the violence there degenerate into chaos, a senior U.S. official told NBC News on Tuesday.

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal made no effort to mask his skepticism Tuesday about President Bush’s proposal to send 21,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq to stem sectarian fighting.

“We agree with the full objectives set by the new plan,” Saud said at a joint news conference in Riyadh with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is traveling in the region selling Bush’s plan. “We are hoping these objectives can be accomplished, but the means are not in our hands. They are in the hands of the Iraqis themselves.”

In fact, Saudi leaders are privately “deeply skeptical” that the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki could implement the U.S. plan, the senior U.S. official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell, who is traveling with Rice.

The Saudi government has signaled in the past that it would oppose an early withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, fearing it would leave minority Sunni Muslims at the mercy of Shiite Muslim militias.

[HooptieWagon]

1. That, and

the war is going VERY well for chimps buddies in Big Oil and military contractors. Also, the idea of killing non-christians is very popular with chimp's fundie base, although they may be wavering a bit as of late.

[madeline_con]

2. The Sauds are Sunni. They do not want a bunch of

6th century Koran thumpers overthrowing the good thing they got. They have enough trouble within, and need no "insurgence" within their borders.

[fooj]

3. We also have a 140,000 + "club med" built there.

Car lots, movie theatres, restaurants, Burger King, dry cleaners, olympic-sized swimming pools...

Wonder when the Iraqi's are going to THANK us for that. :banghead:

[spindrifter]

4. This is not anything new. They were saying

this before the holidays in December. The Corporate Media is being sold this and trying to resell it to us to bolster Chimp's 21,000 plan.