Do they have free elections in Saudi Arabia?

...just curious. And weren't most of the 9-11 hijackers supposedly from there?....just curious

14 of the 19 hijackers were from there. that's 74%

but somehow that's OK :shrug:

somehow they seem like they need invaded and toppled, but instead, we're in Iraq.

that our friend and strategic ally - Saudi Arabia - is an OUTPOST OF TYRANNY, are you? What about the wonderful, productive friendship between the House of Bush and the House of Saud?

Pakistan too. They have them all the time, every day in fact.

you know, i just saw king abdullah on cnn and he was talking about democratic change and how he'd welcome it...if it was stable and progressive...thought that was hedging your bets a little! :D

Unless he did, officially, it's still Crown Prince Abdullah, Minister of the National Guard, and King Fadh (his older brother). Since succession is from brother to brother, the next in line after Abdullah is Prince Sultan, Minister of the Air Force, and, like Fadh, and notably unlike Abdullah, one of the "Suderi Seven," brothers of a single mother.

is what they have in Saudi Arabia.

pnorman

those who behead people are really nasty and subhuman,....i thought.

shocking people with electricity or injecting them with poison is pretty barbaric. I think Utah or someplace still uses a firing squad.

SA started having elections within the last two years for lower level offices. Can't touch the king and his court though.

for the first time in 40 years, seebbcnews
Women will not be allowed to vote..
Can't wait for the U.S. to bring freedom to that country!

edited to fix the link

whenever and however they want...Dubya will even send his own family lawyer to defend them against those nasty 9-11 victims family members.
They are free to continue oppressing women and anyone who is not adhering to strict Sharia law.
Ain't freedom grand? This is the vision Shrub has for Amerikkka

Did you know that converting from Islam to another religon will get you beheaded in Saudi Arabia?
With allies like this who needs enemies?

But not by much. On the "better than Cuba" side they have more than one candidate on the ballot, but women aren't allowed to vote. Like Cuba, the elected officials have no real authority so the results are pretty meaningless.

to protect them against the population; it doesn't look like the people there like the leadership a lot.


As documented in
"The iron Triangle", a documentary exposing the Carlyle Group
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/11838857/
(mostly english subtitles)

also see
Riyadh suicide bombings target Vinnell

"President Bush characterized the May 12 suicide bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as being carried out by "killers whose only faith is hate."; In fact, the devastating attack was a calculated, political act that was probably not orchestrated by al Qaeda and not directed primarily against the United States.
...
Both the recent bombings and the 1995 attack were made against the same target. This was the Vinnell Corp., a Fairfax, Va., company recently acquired by Northrop-Grumman that trains the 80,000 member Saudi Arabian National Guard under the supervision of the U.S. Army."

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/weekly_2003/saudi_bombing_vinnell_corporation.html

....they are given a pass on slaughtering 3,000 Americans and our troops.