And this one time, at Bandar camp,

me and Bandy, we shot some Messicans and buried ‘em up on Mount Lil' Coolidge.

At least I think they were Messicans.

All's I know is, they worked in the kitchen, and we were pretty sure they were spittin’ in our soup, and they cried and swore and stuff in Messican when we tasered ‘em, so I think they was Messican.

And this other time, at Bandar camp, we made a buncha Peace Corps chicks blow us!

For real. It was so awesome. We said we’d have their families deported to Bandy’s country if they didn’t, so they did.

Then we ate so much pie we got sick.

Then we blew up a dog with a grenade.


When you read this article, keep in mind that the Saudi Royal family and the Bush Royal family have been band camp reach-around buddies for two generations.

That Dubya’s nickname with the House of Saud was “Bandar Bush”.

That two nights after 09/11/01 – like “Boston Legal”’s Alan Shore and Denny Crane –

it was with Prince Bandar that Dubya shared a balcony at the White House so his close, personal friend could have a stogie and a drink.

From "Fahrenheit 9/11" (transcript)

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Two nights after September 11th, George Bush invited Bandar Bush to the White House for a private dinner and talk. Even though bin Laden was a Saudi, and Saudi money had funded al Qaeda, and fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudis, here was the Saudi ambassador casually dining with the President.

On September 13th, what were they talking about? Were they commiserating? Or comparing notes? Why would Bandar's government block American investigators from talking to the relatives of the fifteen hijackers? Why would Saudi Arabia become reluctant to freeze the hijackers' assets?

The two of them rocked out on the Truman Balcony so that Bandar could smoke a cigar and have a drink. In the distance, across the Potomac, was the Pentagon, partially in ruins.
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And yet…(from the NYT with emphasis scattered in by me)

July 27, 2007
U.S. Officials Voice Frustrations With Saudis, Citing Role in Iraq

This article was reported by Helene Cooper, Mark Mazzetti and Jim Rutenberg, and written by Ms. Cooper.

WASHINGTON, July 26 — During a high-level meeting in Riyadh in January, Saudi officials confronted a top American envoy with documents that seemed to suggest that Iraq’s prime minister could not be trusted.

One purported to be an early alert from the prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr warning him to lie low during the coming American troop increase, which was aimed in part at Mr. Sadr’s militia. Another document purported to offer proof that Mr. Maliki was an agent of Iran.

The American envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, immediately protested to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, contending that the documents were forged. But, said administration officials who provided an account of the exchange, the Saudis remained skeptical, adding to the deep rift between America’s most powerful Sunni Arab ally, Saudi Arabia, and its Shiite-run neighbor, Iraq.

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Of an estimated 60 to 80 foreign fighters who enter Iraq each month, American military and intelligence officials say that nearly half are coming from Saudi Arabia and that the Saudis have not done enough to stem the flow.

Just so we’re completely clear, this just one more stone in a mountain of evidence that these longtime friends of the Bush Family are either explicitly or implicitly backing the people who are coming over the Iraq border to kill Americas.

And that this is the same President who came into office claiming that his complete lack of foreign policy experience would be more than ably compensated for by his nearly superhuman ability to look into the eyes of other leaders and get a measure of their souls.

This is the Leader of the Free World we’re talking about.

The Head Drum Major for Jebusland.

The Manichean Emperor of “You’re either with us or with the Terrorists".

Preznit Optico-Soul-O-Matic-Polygrapher.

So exactly what bold, decisive action is Dear Leader taking in the face of this clear and present danger to American lives being perpetrated by his family's close personal friends?

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One senior administration official says he has seen evidence that Saudi Arabia is providing financial support to opponents of Mr. Maliki. He declined to say whether that support was going to Sunni insurgents because, he said, “That would get into disagreements over who is an insurgent and who is not.”

Senior Bush administration officials said the American concerns would be raised next week when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates make a rare joint visit to Jidda, Saudi Arabia.
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So…they’ve waited damned near five years to notice that the Saudis are getting into the habit of killing Americans and getting away with it, and now Dubya’s fiercest kung fu consists of sending his errand boys and girls to deliver a sternly-worded message to his Saudi Uncles?

Well Fan-Fucking-Tastic.

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Officials in Washington have long resisted blaming Saudi Arabia for the chaos and sectarian strife in Iraq, choosing instead to pin blame on Iran and Syria. Even now, military officials rarely talk publicly about the role of Saudi fighters among the insurgents in Iraq.

The accounts of American concerns came from interviews with several senior administration officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they believed that openly criticizing Saudi Arabia would further alienate the Saudi royal family at a time when the United States is still trying to enlist Saudi support for Mr. Maliki and the Iraqi government, and for other American foreign policy goals in the Middle East, including an Arab-Israeli peace plan.
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Of course, the Saudi government has hardly masked its intention to prop up Sunni groups in Iraq …

Several officials interviewed for this article said they believed that Saudi Arabia’s direct support to Sunni tribesmen increased this year as the Saudis lost faith in the Maliki government and felt they must bolster Sunni groups in the eventuality of a widespread civil war.

Saudi Arabia months ago made a pitch to enlist other Persian Gulf countries to take a direct role in supporting Sunni tribal groups in Iraq, said one former American ambassador with close ties to officials in the Middle East. The former ambassador, Edward W. Gnehm, who has served in Kuwait and Jordan, said that during a recent trip to the region he was told that Saudi Arabia had pressed other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council — which includes Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman — to give financial support to Sunnis in Iraq. The Saudis made this effort last December, Mr. Gnehm said.

And yet…

The closest the administration has come to public criticism was an Op-Ed page article about Iraq in The New York Times last week by Mr. Khalilzad, now the United States ambassador to the United Nations. “Several of Iraq’s neighbors — not only Syria and Iran but also some friends of the United States — are pursuing destabilizing policies,” Mr. Khalilzad wrote. Administration officials said Mr. Khalilzad was referring specifically to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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Even as American frustration at Saudi Arabia grows, American military officials are still cautious about publicly detailing the extent of the flow of foreign fighters going to Iraq from Saudi Arabia. Earlier this month, for instance, Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, the top American military spokesman in Iraq, detailed the odyssey of a foreign fighter recently captured in Ramadi.

In his public account, General Bergner told reporters that the man arrived in Syria on a chartered bus, was smuggled into Iraq by a Syrian facilitator, and was given instructions to carry out a suicide truck bomb on a bridge in Ramadi. He did not identify the man’s nationality, but American officials in Iraq say he was a Saudi.

And yet...

The American officials in Iraq also say that the majority of suicide bombers in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia and that about 40 percent of all foreign fighters are Saudi. Officials said that while most of the foreign fighters came to Iraq to become suicide bombers, others arrived as bomb makers, snipers, logisticians and financiers.

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There are seven mentions of the name “Bush” in this article: One in a sentence that describes how hacked off the Saudis are with Dubya, and six as part of the phrase “Bush administration” or “senior Bush administration officials".

Nowhere just Dubya, explaining to the citizens of the country over which he has presided for almost seven years what he plans to do about this grave and murderous threat.

Nowhere in the reporting on this bloody awful mess is it even mentioned that the Leader of the Free World has close, filial bonds with the leadership of the country that is bankrolling a big chunk of the people who are killing our children.

Nowhere is in even hinted that, just maybe, instead of dispatching his minions with a scrap of paper and some harsh words, that in defense of the troops e sends off to die every day in this Iraqi Debacle, the Commander Guy should perhaps get on the fucking phone and make a few blunt calls to his Saudi cousins.

And yet he does virtually nothing, year after year, while exhorting us all to keep pouring our blood and treasure into his Persian Abyss because it is the Most Important War Evah!

Which may leave you wondering, is Dubya simply a coward and a weakling?

Or is he in the pay of a foreign government?

Or is it perhaps that the Prince remembers some things about Dubya’s summers at Bandar Camp that the Dear Leader would rather not have disinterred?