In the news, but not really...

Read an interesting post yesterday over at thismodernworld about recent happenings in Saudi Arabia. The issue here is the fact that the Saudis are our allies... and they run a brutal dictatorship. Anybody sense the contradiction here? I saw an episode of South Park once where Cartman travels back to meet with the founding fathers and it is decided that the government of this country will be founded on saying one thing and doing another. I don't recall hearing hardly anything in the news about Saudi Arabia since 9/11, aside from the fact that TWENTY-EIGHT pages of a report issued on the happenings of that day were blacked out due to the content in the report that focused on Saudi Arabia.

Why no Saudi News? One might ask. And I would say that while I am not privy to classified information, nor do I(and probably 90% of all other human beings) really, truly know exactly what is going on with this administration's decision making processes, one could venture to guess a couple of different reasons for the lack of Saudi coverage in the news...

1. The media is focused elsewhere, for obvious reasons.

2. There is nothing to cover... we'll come back to this one.

3. Certain people with certain interests don't want the masses to know much about that part of the world due to the impending contradiction.

4. The leader of the free world smokes cigars with the leaders of Saudi Arabia.

So, back to 3, what is there to cover? Well, maybe that our ally runs a brutal dictatorship... the kind that this administration has serious contempt for, the kind that harbors terra, the kind that was home to the majority of 9/11 hijackers... the kind that the monkey loves to do business with, hmmm... sigh. In any case, I'm sure this will be covered in Moore's new movie, opening this Friday. It is my hope that "conservative minded" (I hate labels like "conservative", or "liberal", because these categories are too general and tend to understate a myriad of different personalities) people go to see this movie for themselves as it will hopefully show them what many have known for quite some time, that something isn't right here. It's just one thing after another.

Go here and scroll down a bit to read about this... ciao