This is fucking sad. In new and new evidence every day of what a blunder of monumental proportion the invasion and occupation of Iraq has been, the New York Times is breaking that the Saudis have told the US that if we leave, it may give money to the Sunni insurgency in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 — Saudi Arabia has told the Bush administration that it might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in any war against Iraq’s Shiites if the United States pulls its troops out of Iraq, according to American and Arab diplomats.
When did they tell us this? Remember when Dick Chenney got summoned to Saudi Arabia? Yup, that's when. They called Dick and told him to go fuck himself (kind of poetic justice, don't you think?). They told him that regardless of what's good for America, America must do what's good for Saudi Arabia.
As a result of our fucking up Iraq, now the entire middle east (majority Sunni Arabs, even though they are the minority in Iraq) is now ready for a bloody civil war. Iran is interested in supporting the Shiites and increasing its influence while Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and others are interested in protecting their influence. Is this what George Bush meant when he talked about transforming the middle east? Transform it into total chaos?
The Saudi warning reflects fears among America’s Sunni Arab allies about Iran’s rising influence in Iraq, coupled with Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. King Abdullah II of Jordan has also expressed concern about rising Shiite influence, and about the prospect that the Shiite-dominated government would use Iraqi troops against the Sunni population.
George Bush, Dick Chenney, Donald Rumsfeld, and their cabal is now forcing the entire region to choose their loyalties. This flying fuck of an administration is setting up the middle east for genocide. And this monkey still won't recognize that Iraq is a failure of the highest order. If this is what "success" looks like, our entire government is going to hell in a handbasket.
We have lost this fucking war. If we keep staying there, we are going to lose what is left of our superpower status. We need to get the fuck out, and get the fuck out now. But what of Saudi Arabia, you say? Well let them spend some of that oil money for once. And let them live with the consequences of meddling in the affairs of another country. It's over for us. We need to get the fuck out.
Update: Very important to note that the Saudi Ambassador all of a sudden up and left town today, as PsiFighter37 pointed out in the comments (also see diary by leveymg).