Why don't democrats attack the Bush family's relationship with the Saudis?

[fujiyama]

Why don't most democrats ever mention this? Is it because they are scared of the Saudis? I don't get it. I doubt most people like those images of Bush with Prince Bandhar. I think those images should feature PROMINENTLY in democrat attack ads.

It's time to fight back with some negative ads, Goddamnit! I've seen a few Kerry on jobs ads, not bad, but not especially effective or exciting.

Kerry needs to get his bio ads (similar to the primary ads) and some negative attack ads out there as well.

[Guaranteed]

1. Cuz they have 'em, too.

Both parties are in bed with the Saudis.

[Wickerman]

2. Read Baer's Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saud

Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer

Basically, we, according to Baer, have aided and abetted SA for so long that we have no leg to stand on. The nmoney supply to US pols is a mile wide and a mile deep.

In Sleeping with the Devil, Baer documents with chilling clarity how our addiction to cheap oil and Saudi petrodollars caused us to turn a blind eye to the Al Sa’ud’s culture of bribery, its abysmal human rights record, and its financial support of fundamentalist Islamic groups that have been directly linked to international acts of terror, including those against the United States. Drawing on his experience as a field operative who was on the ground in the Middle East for much of his twenty years with the agency, as well as the large network of sources he has cultivated in the region and in the U.S. intelligence community, Baer vividly portrays our decades-old relationship with the increasingly dysfunctional and corrupt Al Sa’ud family, the fierce anti-Western sentiment that is sweeping the kingdom, and the desperate link between the two. In hopes of saving its own neck, the royal family has been shoveling money as fast as it can to mosque schools that preach hatred of America and to militant fundamentalist groups—an end game just waiting to play out.

Baer not only reveals the outrageous excesses of a Saudi royal family completely out of touch with the people of its kingdom, he also takes readers on a highly personal search for the deeper roots of modern terrorism, a journey that returns time again and again to Saudi Arabia: to the Wahhabis, the powerful Islamic sect that rules the Saudi street; to the Taliban and al Qaeda, both of which Saudi Arabia helped to underwrite; and to the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most active and effective terrorist groups in existence, which the Al Sa’ud have sheltered and funded. The money and arms that we send to Saudi Arabia are, in effect, being used to cut our own throat, Baer writes, but America might have only itself to blame. So long as we continue to encourage the highly volatile Saudi state to bank our oil under its sand—and so long as we continue to grab at the Al Sa’ud’s money—we are laying the groundwork for a potential global economic catastrophe.