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Hypocrisy: Authoritarian rule should end in the ME? http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...bush_speech_dc Saudi Arabia has one of the most oppressive Monarchies in the ME, but no slurs have been directed at them....
  1. 03-08-2005, 11:24 AM #1
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    Hypocrisy

    Authoritarian rule should end in the ME?

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...bush_speech_dc

    Saudi Arabia has one of the most oppressive Monarchies in the ME, but no slurs have been directed at them.
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    What are relations between Israel and S.A. like?
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    Quote Originally Posted by sinjin
    What are relations between Israel and S.A. like?
    Complicated:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign...f_Saudi_Arabia
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  4. 03-08-2005, 12:09 PM #4
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    Could it be the oil they have?

    Quote Originally Posted by georged
    Authoritarian rule should end in the ME?

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...bush_speech_dc

    Saudi Arabia has one of the most oppressive Monarchies in the ME, but no slurs have been directed at them.
    Or do you think it is their beach front land we covet?
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    Quote Originally Posted by jkca1
    Or do you think it is their beach front land we covet?
    The Sauds could start butchering their common population and as long as they continue taking only USD for their oil we'd probably help them in the name of democracy.
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  6. 03-08-2005, 01:02 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by georged
    The Sauds could start butchering their common population and as long as they continue taking only USD for their oil we'd probably help them in the name of democracy.
    Christians, Muslims .... Voltaire said that when it comes to money all men are of the same religion. There is some proof to that. Another thing he wrote that one might apply to the ME, "Those that can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dono
    Christians, Muslims .... Voltaire said that when it comes to money all men are of the same religion. There is some proof to that. Another thing he wrote that one might apply to the ME, "Those that can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".
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