CNN Intl: Bush AND Condi to meet with Saudi officials on Sunday

[Norquist Nemesis]

"to discuss the Middle East situtation" just before she leaves for her trip.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Working on the Sabbath? Should they not be stoned to death?

Or is that an inconvenient part of the good book that the religiously insane ignore? Can you imagine bush's part in such a discussion?

[TomInTib]

5. That went out the window with the advent of NASCAR.

NHRA was just plain Heathen.

"SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!"

[BOSSHOG]

9. Oh, that explains it!

I bet if you play Leviticus backwards there is something in there about horsepower worship.

On a personal note, I am a big NASCAR fan, a beer drinking flaming liberal.

[havocmom]

2. "Oil price high enoug yet? Can we have a 'trying to make peace' photo op?"

What IS the price of oil today, anyway?

[cal04]

3. Bush, Rice to Confer With Saudi Officials

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will lay out U.S. plans Friday for a diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting, and she and President Bush will meet with Saudi Arabian officials Sunday to discuss it.

Rice departs later Sunday for the Mideast, and will carry the U.S. strategy for ending the 10-day-old warfare and establishing stability in southern Lebanon, a senior administration official said.

The secretary was expected to detail her itinerary and agenda in Washington later Friday, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because Rice had not yet made her plans public.

Announcing plans for the weekend meeting Bush and Rice will have with the Saudis, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said, ``This is part of the president's broader diplomatic outreach on the developing situation in the Middle East.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5966440,00.html

[hlthe2b]

4. Lebanon may be doomed...

Sunni Saudi Arabia has no love for the Shiite Hezbollah and given the restructuring of regional power (given the debacle in Iraq yielding an Iran-friendly Shiite majority engaged in civil war against the Iraqi Sunnis), I don't know that they will be at all predictable in this...The House of Saud has enough problems dealing with its Wahabi Sunni fundamentalists and certainly have no interest in strengthening Hezbollah (or Hamas for that matter)...

[zippy890]

8. thanks for the background

I didn't know saudi arabia was sunni.

I have noticed how conspicuously siient saudi arabia has been during this whole thing.

[Benhurst]

6. Probably picking up their monthly dividend checks. NT

[MidwestTransplant]

7. I don't know if I can stomache more of this

[Skidmore]

10. I may be naive here... but

I do believe that the Saudis are not fighting in this mess? Those sheikhs just sit back and watch everyone else participate in bloodletting. Why are we not speaking directly to the Lebanese?

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. Good question! The Israelis too!

When's the last time Bush/Condi had a conversation with the Palestinian government?