time to rebuild the house of saud   (link)

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/16/1073878030512.html?oneclick=true
Buried in the detail of the US presidential campaign is a time bomb. On November 30, in a high school auditorium in suburban Merrimack, southern New Hampshire, Howard Dean, the early Democratic front-runner in this year's presidential election, uttered these words: "He [President Bush] lacks the backbone to stand up against the Saudis."

The House of Saud, key American ally, strategic base for US armed forces, the West's biggest supplier of oil?

"Saudia Arabia uses our oil money," Dean continued, "to train the next generation of suicide bombers."

True. Saudi Arabia is the world's leading financier of religious bigotry, militant medievalism, sectarian violence and the subjugation of women. It is the Taliban with money. Its financing of the most malignant form of Islamism has extended to Australia. And if the House of Saud falls, the prodigious oil wealth of the Arabian peninsula will likely fall to the Wahhabist branch of Islam, which promotes jihad, religious war against idolators, especially the West, especially America.