Chilling quote I found...

[UndertheOcean]

The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan gave us the Taliban. The American occupation of Saudi Arabia gave us bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The Israeli occupation of Lebanon gave us Hezbollah. Let us see what the American occupation of Iraq is going to give us.

As'ad Abu Khalil

[Fridays Child]

1. k/r

[Richard D]

2. Chilling indeed

K'd n R'd

[cynatnite]

3. I didn't know America occupied Saudi Arabia...

Yes, we had troops stationed there, but it was hardly the same thing.

[UndertheOcean]

4. For the fanatics of bin ladens ilk Saudi Arabia is Holy land , and having infidel armies on it is an

affront towards god.

Thats Islamic Fundamentalism for you , not rational to say the least.

[cynatnite]

5. Thanks for the clarification...

I wasn't looking at it like that.

[sofa king]

6. That was al Q's primary complaint against us, and....

It's probably why the United States has not been attacked on its own soil since, because the first thing George Bush did was cave in to the terrorist demands.

[UndertheOcean]

7. how so?

n/t

[InternalDialogue]

8. "U.S. Pulls Out of Saudi Arabia"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2984547.stm

[mmonk]

11. Who knows how much longer the House of Saud has?

[Flabbergasted]

9. Its not really all that correct of a statement...nt

[Va Lefty]

10. Blowback

You can trace it even farther back to CIA coup in Iran in the fifties that put the Shah in power, which some twenty years later led to Khomeini and American hostages