What Us, Worry?

No matter what you think of the relationship between Saudi Arabian aristocracy and the Bush Administration, any less than positive comments coming from Saudi Arabia has to make you sit up and listen. This also serves as quite a reality check given all the propaganda we're being fed by the Bush Administration that we're making such great progress in Iraq.

Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, said Thursday that he had been warning the Bush administration in recent days that Iraq was hurtling toward disintegration, a development that he said could drag the region into war.

"There is no dynamic now pulling the nation together," he said in a meeting with reporters at the Saudi Embassy here. "All the dynamics are pulling the country apart." He said he was so concerned that he was carrying this message "to everyone who will listen" in the Bush administration.

Prince Saud's statements, some of the most pessimistic public comments on Iraq by a Middle Eastern leader in recent months, were in stark contrast to the generally upbeat assessments that the White House and the Pentagon have been offering.

As expected, the White House is vehemently denying Saudi Arabia's assessment cause they couldn't possibly provide an accurate assessment right?