nursedave's Journal: Bush's speech

This is just a copy of what I wrote in a response in Twirlip's journal (user 615030); I thought I'd post it here, too.

I am so glad to be back stateside, after 2 years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As a result of my situation, I have mixed emotions on this upcoming action.
On the one hand, I agree totally with Bush that the Iraqi dictator must go. His 48 hours is, in my opinion, exceedingly charitable. And, it will go ignored by that buffoon in the funny hat. Bush is absolutely correct - the UN has failed in its mission, diplomacy has come to its end, and the US has the absolute right to a pre-emptive attack on someone who plans to do the same to us, without, I might add, a UN resolution to give them 'legitimacy.'

On the other hand, I have friends still in Riyadh, and I fear for their safety. The past months, things have become so tense there; just walking down the street garnered glares from the locals, and they would yell things at us; I personally know 3 people who have been physically attacked, including one woman, just because they are white and presumed American. The Saudis are too stupid to see this as what it is; they prefer to see it as a crusade of a Christian nation against a Muslim one. Nothing is ever the fault of an Arab, in the Saudi view - it is all due to the Jews, who run America, and their puppet state of Israel (or is the US the puppet state? I can never keep their bullshit straight). It is the US' fault that Hussein attacked Kuwait in the first place. And of course, we supported him at one time, so apparently anything he does from that point in time onward is also our fault.

So, God bless this endeavor, and I hope the Iraqi military leadership realizes it is doomed and airs out Hussein before someone on our team has to.

ah!

[intermodal]

finally someone with somethign intelligent to say on the matter who actually knows regional details

Re:ah!

[nursedave]

Thanks! It was an incredibly enlightening time, although not enlightening in the way liberals use the term, ie, to suddenly decide that the world is my brother and I just love them all so much and want to give noogies too all of 'em.