Are they holding hands in the picture? Surely someone doctored that picture.

txstar on April 2, 2008 at 4:05 PM

Nope. Holding hands. It’s what Saudi men do (it’s not sexual) and Bush is extending a courtesy to a foreigner. In this case, the Saudi King.

When leaders of nations go to other countries, they often ‘do as the Roman’s do’ while in Rome. In France, men do the ‘kiss cheek’ motion. I swear to god I have seen a photo of Bill Clinton doing this once, but haven’t been able to find any copy. I thought it was from the official Saudi website, and a few links on pages out there suggest that a photo shows it, but they are just walking side by side.

Liberals (and a few ‘conservatives,’ it would seem) delight in looking at this photo over and over for comedic value. I’ve even seen a doctored pic taken about the same time that Bush and the Saudi dude are talking, and someone photoshopped it to look like they are, kissing.

Woot.

Gotta give it to the democrats (and some ‘conservatives’) who love to bring this pic and more out to further slander the president with innuendo.

We need to stop dilly-dallying with these Neanderthals and start killing them. That’s the only thing these Saudi animals understand.

The Saudi Royal family doesn’t dare progress forward with the above I mentioned because if they did it would jeopardize their theocratic monarchy, in other words they are 1) protecting their power and money by keeping their people poor and ignorant 2) they are building a constant terrorist force in their “schools” and 3) they are fomenting hatred toward the west by blaming us for their people being poor and ignorant, thus encouraging them to Jihad.

Why bother with Iraq, we should have marched into Saudi Arabia.

Carter needed to have started the Alternate Energy Policy in 1978.

And everyone since has been derelect, as well .

The smarts are there, but not the hearts.

Time to join the two to our advantage.

Hydrogen-producing, trash-eating bacteria are an elegant start.

Get rid of the imported Oil that is. I have to explain everything.

And start drilling.

Indy Conservative on April 2, 2008 at 3:30 PM

I completely agree, our security trumps environmentalism, or at least it should! It’s also important to note that while we do need to explore and drill for oil domestically we also need to build more refineries because without refineries all that oil we pump out of the ground will just sit around as we don’t currently have sufficient refining capacity, again thanks to the moonbat environmentalists!

Which brings me to something somewhat OT, you would think all these “environmentalists” wouldn’t work so hard to block the building of new refineries since the ones in use today are utilizing much older and more polluting technology. After all there is only so much upgrading you can do to a refinery that’s more than 30 years old, to really have a less polluting and more environmentally friendly refinery you have to build one from the ground up, retrofitting only goes so far.

This proves the “environmentalists” use mostly emotion and not sound science or common sense in pushing its agenda. Besides the whole refinery issue is the gas additive MTBE that the “environmentalists” shoved down the gas industries throat a couple of decades ago when they were clamoring for an additive to gasoline that would make it burn cleaner. The gas industry wanted to take its time to find an additive that would work safely but the “environmentalists” screamed “stall tactics” and demanded they come up with an additive sooner and this is why they ended up using MTBE. The problem with MTBE however is it is very miscible with water and of course it has eventually found its way into our ground water and because MTBE is so miscible with water it’s nearly impossible with current technology to separate it out not to mention the costs of doing so.

Bottom line is the “environmentalists” did more damage to the environment in the case of MTBE (as just one example of where they have done more harm than good) because they base everything on emotion and not sound science and common sense.

In our current situation in becoming less dependent on foreign oil the “environmentalists” are once again placing the environment before our survival needs and as Maslow pointed out survival needs come first…so yes, lets start drilling and building those refineries and just as important lets start pumping lots of money into the research of alternative energy sources…something we should have started doing in earnest back in the 70′s when the Saudi’s held us hostage with the oil embargo!

Get rid of the Oil, you’ll get rid of Saudi Arabia and its influence.

Get rid of the imported Oil that is. I have to explain everything.

And start drilling.

That line was for the Liberals of America.

So, stop crying about gas prices and our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

Because YOU carry all the blame.

YOU are enslaving America.

Guess who leads the world in terrorist financing?

Do we get three guesses and the first two don’t count?

This is nothing new, for many many decades the Saudi Royal family have been funding these Madras’s (sp) to brain wash their offspring in order to build their terrorist force.

Part of that brain washing is convincing all the poor and ignorant in that part of the world that they are poor and ignorant because of the “evil America empire” when in reality it is the fault of the oil rich privileged of the Saudi Royal family and their entourage that keep them poor and ignorant all the while building palace after palace instead of developing an economy based on products other than oil, developing an educational system instead of their jihad indoctrination “schools” and working towards a true democracy. Seriously, what would Saudi Arabia be without their oil income…NOTHING!

The Saudi Royal family doesn’t dare progress forward with the above I mentioned because if they did it would jeopardize their theocratic monarchy, in other words they are 1) protecting their power and money by keeping their people poor and ignorant 2) they are building a constant terrorist force in their “schools” and 3) they are fomenting hatred toward the west by blaming us for their people being poor and ignorant, thus encouraging them to Jihad.

I have said since the oil embargo of the 70′s that we needed to be oil/energy independent, it would be very difficult for the oil rich Saudi’s to fund their indoctrination schools and terrorism without the oil money, you take away their oil money then what economy do they have…flying rugs? Dry up all the oil money and the Saudi’s would collapse in very short order!

With “allies” like the Saudi’s, who needs enemies?

I agree.. and the oil isn’t in transport for very long either.. where an oil spill is most likely to happen..

As for repelled by the sight, I would be glad that there is work for Americans and have the hopes I wouldn’t have to pay $3.50 a gallon to drive back home on..

sound environmental advice all around :)

DerKrieger on April 2, 2008 at 1:47 PM

Yeah, and it’s not just the Dems. Governors Crist and Bush of FL have kept FL off-limits to drilling, even though the risk of environmental harm is minimal, especially for gas wells. They just don’t want their tourists to be repelled by the sight. There’s much more energy in the Outer Continental Shelf than in ANWR, and no reason we shouldn’t be drilling it except for the NIMBYs. The state of TX receives lots of royalty $, and there are plenty of well-paying jobs in the industry.

This pic has always turned my stomach.

labrat on April 2, 2008 at 1:44 PM

Me, too.

How does that even come about? Do the aides get involved and discuss the protocol beforehand? Does the prince ask for W’s hand, or does he just grab it? Why doesn’t W just say that he understands it’s culturally acceptable by Arabs, but not in his own country? There’s no need to do it, so why do it?

What do we owe Saudi Arabia? A free pass to fund Jihad?

Heh, I should have told you it was more radical than a whahabists dream. It will take them nuking us to do that I admit. So we wait to get nuked.

A serious plan to get the Saudi’s to stop funding Jihad? You can’t embarrass Americas most important ally in the war on terrorism like that can you?

Our great, good allies in the Jihadi War, who have done so much for The Cause since 9/11 (including threatening Britain), are also the single biggest source of funds for jihadist terror groups, including al Qaeda. Saudi Arabia remains the…

I’m not excusing the Saudis, but we did kind of owe them one, and they’ve controlled the world economy for decades. It’s extremely hard to disengage from them, but it needs to be done. Faster, please.

So what are we doing? Is our relationship with the Saudi’s so important that we can’t take a firm stand on this issue?
And all they get is a mild rebuke from President Bush?  Sometimes I really question the political motives of the Bush ad…