Can anyone help these people? I thought Saudi Arabia was different than Iraq?
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Quote\n========\nIslam is the official religion and prevades all aspects of life and the observance of any other religion is not accepted here. Public display of non-Islamic religious articles are not permitted and will get confiscated if found. Non-Muslim religious services are illegal. Travel to Makkah & Madinah, the cities where the two Holy Mosques of Islam are located, is forbidden to non-Muslims. The importation and use of narcotics, alcohol and pork-products is also forbidden. Penalties for importing drugs are severe and include death penalty.\nUnquote\n========\nThis is from the survival section in Jeddah today guide 2006.\n--------------------------------------\nMy opinion is this is the country of Islam, and is an Islamic Monarchy.\nIf some European countries such as Greece, do not want to build a Mosque for the muslims there since the 1970's. Then Saudi Arabia, has the right to do what it sees right.
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wow,thats amazeing, wot a contrast .....i knew haliburotn were in iraq to grab iraqi oil for its own purposes and not to help with the reconstruction.
31474
NO! NO! NO! And to these people saying that oh we are fighting the people that brought down the towers. Iraq had nothing to do with that so destroying the people and their country is stupid. The reason the terrorists are there are because we are. They want to kill US! So we should have stayed in afganastan and then to saudi arabia where the killers of 911 came from. That is if you even believe all that our goverment has told you.
573326
i think U got something slightly wrong Jubin..\nif U want to know what KSA is.. then U talking about \nKINGDOM of SAUDI ARABIA\nanyway.. hope thats the answer U wanted
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email me,I really need help.I am Ihsan from Saudi Arabia.\nlifeofedu@yahoo.co.uk
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There are not any and your statement about stationing troops in Saudi Arabia is untrue also. Terrorists kill people because they are savages and they do not need a reason, they give a reason but the truth is they are savages.
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Our guys stood & still stand between it. Not so much an Iraqi civil war as a muslim civil war between sunnis & shites that al queada wanted to start all around US troops so we'd take the casualties & they could twist everyone onto the common foe/invader. Look at plans like Sen. Biden's which rips us out of there & encourages (literally) Iraq to break up into enthnic states. Then ask yourself what would happen with kurddish populations in Turkey, Syria, Jordan; what would happen with Arab countries assistance to the Sunni state dominated by al Queada; Iranian & Hammas support to the Shia state. It all makes for regional civil war (not to mention $200 oil) which we'll just have to go back & settle at a higher price. No offense to the honorable gentleman or whomever may agree with him, but how can a serious leader actually come up with such a retarded idea & propose it as the policy of the US - you don't like the war so your solution is to surrender & come home for six months before you have to go back & get even more of our guys killed then if you'd stayed & won? What the hell?
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The theory is like this: Radical Wahhabi Muslims in Saudi Arabia end their "detente" with the less than religiously strict Saudi Royal Family, and start a little insurrection. As it stands, the Saudi royals fund all of the religious schools, build mosques, maintain Islamic law, etc., and they turn a blind eye to the royal families excesses. \n\nIt's not that far fetched to imagine these radicals (Al Qaeda, etc.), see the royals cracking down on terrorists, working with the U.S., and becoming too westernized. They're response: take over the Saudi oil fields, blow them up, render them useless, and they cripple the U.S. as well as every other Western Govt's economy. They would like nothing better than to get back to their nomadic days in the desert. They believe that all of their problems started with the discovery of oil. And by all accounts, the Saudi military may not be up to the task of stopping any of this.\n\nOf course, the U.S., as well as every other oil dependent nation, has a contingency plan if this happens. They would invade and secure the oil fields, or try. The point is, if the radical muslims destroy enough infrastructure in the oil industry, pipelines, refineries, etc., then the world's largest oil reserves are off line for months. Think about the global economic crisis that would result from Saudi oil being cut off for months???\n\nRead "Sleeping with the Devil : How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude" by Bob Baer.
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Because they're finally getting around to telling us the truth. Iraq under Saddam was a more liberal part of the Arab. In Saudi Arabia, women are now getting the right to vote and drive. In Saddam's Iraq they held cabinet positions. Saddam had a secular society in the midst of theocracy. He gave the women the right to divorce their husbands. To vote. To drive. To go about with the requisite clothing.\n\nBut now? All those rights are being fought for again. And the women are losing.
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the king has been ill for years and is not really in charge. btw, don't forget 16 of the 9/11 hijackers were from saudi and also, israel is probably a more important us ally in the middle east.
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Arcane are you  crazy?  Their are a lot more modernized middle eastern countries that Iraq.  I have been to a couple different countries and I saw nothing that even Iraq.  You need to know what you are talking about before you start saying stuff like that.  One other thing I want to tell you about.  If the Iraqis didn't want us there all they had to do is run us out,  but they are going through what we did  in our civil war, Losing life's, homes, family and what not they know that it is a necessary evil but most of them are ready for a change.  There have been more business open up in the last year than any other year in their history.  Soon as they can show that their military is able and willing we will be out but no sooner.  It would be a disgrace to the US and its people if we left now and let total hell rain down upon them.
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The war on terror has nothing to do with the war in Iraq, and I am beginning to question the war in Afghanistan. To the poster above me does 100 old men, woman and children have to die to save one American, you forget the majority of Iraqi people are just like you and me, trying to get through life with as little hassle as possible.
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Saudis support the USA, why would anyone think differently?\nMy encounters with Saudis, have been good ones. They are very westernized. I'm cool with them.
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Have you heard of Iraq?\n\nWesterners are still trying to enforce their will on Arabs.\n\nLittle has changed.\n\nlove and blessings Don
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There really isn't a difference and all of you out there who keep saying that if we invaded for oil - our oil prices wouldn't be this high are extremely naive. The Oil companies are making a killing which is exactly what this administration wants - Profits for big business. I mean look at all the tax breaks - the only group benefiting is big business and Americans who make over 1 million per year.\n\nAnd to those of you who still think we went in to Iraq to help the Iraqi's you are beyond misguided (if that were true we would never have supplied Saddam with wmd's to gas the Kurds, after which btw we did nothing). The U.S. doesn't care about helping the Iraqi's - if we did this for human rights reason we would have helped the Sudanese. We are in it for our own personal gain, which is evident by the fact that the government has changed the reason for the invasion 3 times since the start of the war. The bottom line is that Iraq was not a threat to us and we invaded them - killing thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousand Iraqi's. The world knows that we haven't liberated anyone. Iraq will turn into a theocracy just as Iran is and the women of Iraq will suffer. In addition, Iraq was a secular gov. in the middle east, one of the only ones, which provided some stability from all of the extremist regimes - now the hope for that is lost and there is no balance.\n\nThe terrorist recruiting pool has just increased ten fold.
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No. But my best friend is a Kurdish Iraqi, and she spent 4 months there last year. She had her ups and downs. But what speaks volumes is that she saw her family's oil being taken by US officials with her own two eyes. (she comes from a wealthy family and they have lots of that). She was also staying in a mansion made of marble but there wasn't even any water to flush the toilets with. Pretty depressing.
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Saudi Arabia................