Comments on: Saudi intel official to ABC News: We’ll kick Al Qaeda’s ass in Anbar

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Report: Karbala ambushers kidnapped U.S. troops, killed them miles away

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:24:31 +0000

[...] Update: More good news. The Iraqi VP who almost became prime minister earlier this year and and has since been touted as a replacement for Maliki calls the U.S.’s invasion in 2003 an “idiot decision.” He’s also a member of SCIRI. [...]

By: Emmett J.

Emmett J. — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:56:02 +0000

If Saudi Arabia was serious about cleaning Al Qaeda out of Iraq, all they would need to do is cut off their paychecks. Tantor on December 16, 2006 at 3:04 AM

Absolutely. Not a mystery to people outside the government, it seems. Let them fight each other.

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Re-Baathification? Maliki invites Saddam-era officers to rejoin the army

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:12:25 +0000

[...] They’ll be vetted for their links to the Baath Party and the ones who don’t rejoin will be given pensions. I doubt they expect anyone to take them up on the offer. The Shiites aren’t going to hand high-ranking military authority to Sunnis responsible, however tangentially, for having persecuted them. It’s a symbolic gesture to the other side, possibly initiated by Maliki to show the new coalition that he’s not al-Sadr’s boy and doesn’t need to be replaced as PM. [...]

By: Tantor

Tantor — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:04:43 +0000

If Saudi Arabia was serious about cleaning Al Qaeda out of Iraq, all they would need to do is cut off their paychecks.

By: Tony737

Tony737 — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 04:36:45 +0000

O/T:

Laura is subbin’ for Bill O!

By: Bill's Bites

Bill's Bites — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 04:28:48 +0000

Saudis Planning to ‘Clean up’ al Qaeda in Anbar…

Saudis Planning to ‘Clean up’ al Qaeda in Anbar A Saudi intelligence official told ABC News that if his government decided, as King Abdullah has threatened, to help the Sunni community defend itself against Shia militias in Iraq, they would…

By: Tony737

Tony737 — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:12:51 +0000

While Saudis have done well fighting AQ INSIDE the kingdom, OUTside I don’t trust ‘em. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. They’ll keep on fightin’ AQ at home, but probably help them elsewhere as a way of keepin’ AQ too busy to attack them. Kinda like what Bush is tryin’ to do according to RiteThinker above.

By: retired

retired — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:02:54 +0000

yeah! give both sides nukes nad let them blow the Flaming F$$$$ out of each others and just sit by.. they all deserve it.. all sides suck..

By: CliffHanger

CliffHanger — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:14:07 +0000

Oh… and Iran does not get nukes.

By: CliffHanger

CliffHanger — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:10:59 +0000

Let’s give Saudi involvement a chance. There are some good reasons to do so. They’ve been arguably effective in pursuing AQ in their own country. Let’s see what they can do in Anbar.

Yes, there is a downside, but hey, the ME is a flippin’ mess and whatever we can do to keep ‘em at each other’s throats within their own sandbox is ok with me so long as Iraq remains a democracy and we keep them far from our shores.

WW IV – war-by-proxy anyone, or am I just drinking the Saudi Koolaid…?

By: ritethinker

ritethinker — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:06:39 +0000

You know I’ve been thinking, a rarity I know, but it happens to the least of us. Maybe the ISG wasn’t such a bad idea after all. I mean think of it, an outbreak of violence between Hamas and Fattah, the Saudi’s threatening AQ, Lebanon ready to explode again. I know what you’re saying; the ISG had as it’s intentions the silencing of violence in the region. Maybe Bush has out-smarted everyone again. Put a little pressure on Iraq, via a surrogate like this group(ISG), and watch the whole region come unglued…but against one another, not Israel and the U.S. The Sunni’s and the Shia’s, the Saudi’s and AQ, the Gulf Region and the Iranians, and finally Palestinian terrorists against Palestinian terrorists. A showdown is bubbling under the surface in Pakistan, with Musharraf knowing his survival depends on his cleaning up the new “talibanistan” within his own borders. Meanwhile, Bin Laden and Co. sit holed up in their cave waiting for the American special-ops forces to vacate the premises, basically power-less to do anything other than release their greatest hits tapes. The Middle East has been a powder keg waiting to explode and administration after administration has tried to keep the lid on the keg. Nature must sometimes take it’s natural course, actually, must always take it’s natural course. Human events are no exception. As John Adams stated before the Supreme Court in the late 1850′s; If the right verdict is to bring on civil war, then let it come. I have to admit that I don’t know if that actually happened, but the point is still a salient one. If the Middle East is to come to a boil and then an explosion, then so be it. Of course this will affect us, possibly even heavily. The oil pipe-line will be severely pinched and will necessitate certain behavioral changes in this nation. But the short-term pain may be what is required for the long-term solution of a Middle East no longer producing hate-filled terrorists………

By: Yakko77

Yakko77 — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:38:21 +0000

Whether this is just big talk or big action to come from the Saudis, only time will tell.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:28:26 +0000

There’s a time to join the battle and there’s a time to stand back and watch it develop.

We’re in the latter.

By: JammieWearingFool

JammieWearingFool — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:18:56 +0000

I agree the Saudis are probably funding them … and a lot of others.

Perhaps this is a good opportunity for Silvestre Reyes to bone on on things. He can go dialogue with, well, whoever he thinks might be the bad guys that day.

By: Zorro

Zorro — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:00:49 +0000

I think the nature of President Bush’s trip to Jordon a few weeks ago was to relay the word, first hand, waste Al-Sadr now or we will.

By: Janos Hunyadi

Janos Hunyadi — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:34:15 +0000

the Marshall Plan only worked once, guys: only in Europe and Japan/South Korea after WWII.