I was on my way to the airport to pick up a friend and I was listening to the local AAR affiliate K-TLK 1150AM with Johnny Wendell. He brought up what Kuwait had to say about Hurricane Katrina.
Apparently Kuwait believes that Hurricane Katrina was brought by Allah to punish the United States for its involvement in the Middle East. Well isn't that just f***ing funny. Wasn't this the country we supposedly liberated fourteen years ago. An official named Muhammad Yousef Al-Mlaifi said the following:
How sad I am for America. Here it is, poor thing, trying with all its might to lower oil prices which have reached heights unprecedented in all history. Along with America's phenomenal efforts to lower the price of oil in order to salvage its declining economy and its currency -- that is still falling due to the 'smart' policy America is implementing in the world -- comes this storm, the fruit of Allah's planning, so that [the price of] a barrel of oil will increase further still. By Allah, this is not schadenfreude.
But before I went to sleep, I opened the Koran and began to read in Surat Al-R'ad ['The Thunder' chapter], and stopped at these words [of Allah]: `The disaster will keep striking the unbelievers for what they have done, or it will strike areas close to their territory, until the promise of Allah comes to pass, for, verily, Allah will not fail in His promise.' [Koran 13:31].
This is sick. We spent how many billions on a country that enslaves its people while wealthy sheiks profit off of our oil consumption?? Unbelievable. What will Condi do about this? Probably go and kiss their asses for more oil.