Saudis Hate Bush

Robert Scheer writing for Truthdig asks Why is it that George W. Bush gets only a 12 percent favorability rating in Saudi Arabia? Scheer points out that even Osama bin Laden and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad score higher in favorability than does G.W. Bush.

Scheer points out that G.W. has been really nice to the Saudis also.

He forgave them for nurturing the Wahhabism that spawned al-Qaida, and he never embarrasses them with the fact that bin Laden and 15 of the19 hijackers who attacked America on 9/11 were born and raised in the kingdom. Nor did Bush let the inconvenient fact that the Saudi government had backed the Taliban until 9/11 intrude on his cozy relations with the royal family.

So the Saudis promote radical Islamist teaching, attack NY city and Washington, DC, back the Taliban in Afghanistan and what do they get from the USA? 20 billion dollars in US weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and other Arab gulf states. Including JDAM kits which allows you to turn dumb bombs into a very smart bombs.