The buzz has Saudis Royals scolding Busheviks, covert Iraq intervention.

Yesterday, Air America's Randi Rhodes was agitating her audience with something along these lines as written below by Parry. Her position was that immediate US troop withdrawal's would bring the Saudis into Iraq with even bigger covert weapon shipments to the Sunnis resistence (they most likely are already doing that) and overt troop reinforcements against the Shia majority. Parry's article below puts it into another perspective. Rhodes did point out that the US was ready to get off the teat of oil - massive programs for energy independence.

She misses the full spectrum withdrawal that is necessary to economically create such programs and the corporate opposition it would receive. By making each village "energy independent" and radically steering commuters to extremely high mileage, [electric commuter vehicles] the country can forestall the inevitable powerdown, but would require massive subisdies. The nation has no will to make the sacrifices, yet. Rhodes is on the correct path, just not big enough, closing down all military bases abroad would make a cost effective beginning toward the New Isolationists program.

Read below for a backgrounder briefing on why the whole mess is never going to work out.

A Way Forward, a Look Back

By Robert Parry

12/13/06

"Consortium News"

--- - The abrupt resignation of the Saudi ambassador to the United States and the postponement of George W. Bush’s new Iraq policy speech mark a troubling new chapter for a U.S. strategy for the Middle East that continues to spiral toward catastrophe.
Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to Washington and the former chief of Saudi intelligence, informed the State Department on Dec. 11 that he had resigned after only 15 months on the job and flew home.

The unceremonious departure was seen as another signal of Saudi anger over Bush’s regional policies. In that view, Turki’s resignation was akin to the recall of an ambassador between two hostile states, albeit softened by Turki’s insistence that he was leaving to spend more time with his family.

Two weeks earlier, Saudi King Abdullah summoned Vice President Dick Cheney to Riyadh to express the kingdom’s displeasure with developments in Iraq, as the pro-Iranian Shiite majority gains the upper hand over the Sunni minority that dominated the country under Saddam Hussein.

Complete article at:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15908.htm