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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:05 AM
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Randi's Rant: Who Was Sitting Over Laura's Shoulder at SOTU
Randi’s Rant: 2/3/06

"Put this one right next to kicking Beverly Young out of the state of the union speech -- an invited member by her husband whose a member of the house of representatives, and Cindy Sheehan being arrested and tossed out of the SOTU speech (who was an invited guest of a member of the house).

But you know who was there as an invited guest of the president? Do you know who was sitting right over Laura Bush’s shoulder? Prince Turki al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia -- a known al Qaeda collaborator who resigned his position shortly after 9/11 as the head of intelligence of Saudi Arabia. Al-Faisal -- Prince Turki al-Faisal-- is a leading member of the Saudi Royal Family, he is the current ambassador to the United States after Bandar had to quit because there were too many photographs of Bush and Bandar just entirely too cozy, just casually sitting on the arms of sofas together and holding hands and basically making out like Brokeback Mountain again. He personally managed Riyadh’s relations with Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Omar of the Taliban, and he was invited by the president of the United States to attend the State of the Union. And he was not molested in any way shape or form. But two women who decided to wear support the troops t-shirts--one that had the number of troops that died and one that just said support the troops--they were thrown out.

But Prince Turki al-Faisal--the conduit between Riyadh, the capitol of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence services, and Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Omar; the actual guy that spoke to Osama all throughout 1997 all the way through 2001. The guy that actually funneled the Saudi charity money--he was invited and he sat right above Laura Bush’s shoulder.

It’s insufferable to me. It’s intolerable."
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phoebe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:15 AM
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1. his sister, Bandar Bush's wife gave money to the terrorists and
pretended she had no idea what she was doing..

http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/11/26/saudi.money.trail/

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An inquiry by the joint House-Senate Intelligence Committee has suggested there is evidence that money from the Saudi government made its way to Almihdhar and Alhazmi via Omar Al Bayoumi and Osama Basnan.

Basnan's wife had asked the princess for financial help, signing checks she received over to her husband and Bayoumi.

Haifa's brother, Prince Turki al-Faisal, told CNN that his sister would have never knowingly given money to terrorists.

"My sister believes that what she did was to help someone who was in need -- someone who was ill and who wanted money to help reach a cure for her illness," said Turki, a former chief of Saudi intelligence.

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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:18 AM
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2. Yep- that who the Bsh's hang out with.
And I'm sure not one republican noticed.

I could just hear the dems sitting there during the Sotu
after seeing this, while listening to the king talk about
terrah.
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LeahD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:18 AM
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3. This info was in another DU thread earlier, but glad to know Randi is
shouting out the truth loud and clear.
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:23 AM
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4. Anyone have a screen capture?
NGU.


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Duncan Grant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 03:04 AM
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5. "Bush and Bandar...making out like Brokeback Mountain again."
Let's not ridicule Bush for his monumental failures - No! - let's make some lame schoolyard taunt about gay men.

She's so progressive. :sarcasm: :grr:
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 04:07 AM
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7. That wasn't my understanding. She just gave a picture to show
how disgustingly close Bush is with him. In no way did I get the understanding she meant it in a sexual way, in no way did I get the understanding that she made a taunt about gay men. It's right to be watchful - but try not to be overly sensitive. There really isn't a wolf behind every bush (of course there is one behind every BUSH, though *g*).


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 12:00 AM
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8. agree. i didn't get the impression randi was doing gay bashing
if she was insinuating something (and she may have been) it has to do with closeted/dangerous/hypocritical freaks such as bush (along the same lines of jeff gannon writing homophobic crap by day and his male escorting escapades by night--apparently including 194 trips into the west wing when there was no press conference/briefing going on. this also makes me wonder about those vanishing emails from chaney and bush--what's the topic they are hiding? plame or more than plame--such as dates with ganon/guckert)

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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 03:15 AM
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6. Opposite Day in *world again
up, side, down, boy-ya-turn me...


duda-dunt dun dun dun
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