Nikola Drobac – 6/23/05

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With friends like the Saudis …; Nikola (Nick) Drobac; Beaver County Times; June 23, 2005.

This is the 18^th anti-Bush and/or anti-Republican rant by Mr. Drobac since July 1, 2004.

I believe I’ve stated before that I don’t really call Saudi Arabia a friend of the United States. About all I can say about the relationship is that we need each other, at least for the time being.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“Monday’s NBC Evening News reported that the majority of the suicide bombers in Iraq are coming from Saudi Arabia.”

[RWC] Mr. Drobac obviously doesn’t recognize it, but he made a serious tactical error. He admitted the majority of terrorists inside Iraq are foreign fighters, not Iraqis. That kills the “guerilla” and “insurgent” labels liberals like Mr. Drobac like to use. Oops.

“As it has so many times before, NBC also reported, the majority of the 9/11 al Qaeda terrorists were from Saudi Arabia.”

[RWC] This is news?

“The level of terrorist activity in Saudi Arabia before and after Sept. 11, 2001, is so overwhelming that the government of Saudi Arabia is doing little to prevent their continued activities.”

[RWC] I guess Mr. Drobac missed the NBC newscasts showing Saudi Arabia finally got serious about terrorism within its borders early in 2004. It’s way late and probably not as much as we would like, but it’s a beginning.

We need to remember the terrorists have targeted the Saudi government. If the “terrorist activity in Saudi Arabia … is so overwhelming,” can Mr. Drobac explain why Saudi Arabia’s oil and gas producing infrastructure is intact and operating at capacity?

“Iraq had no ties to al Qaeda terrorists, had nothing to do with 9/11, had no weapons of mass destruction and was no threat to the United States. Yet we are in Iraq instead of Saudi Arabia.

[RWC] Iraq and al-Qaida links have been documented since at least 1993, when we learned some of those involved in the World Trade Center bombing came from Iraq and returned to Iraq. It’s true we believe Iraq had no involvement in 9/11 and the Bush administration never said otherwise. Regarding WMD, we haven’t found any but we know Iraq had WMD at one time. Not finding WMD doesn’t change the fact that Iraq had documented WMD stockpiles in the early 1990s that remain unaccounted for. If they aren’t in Iraq, what happened to them?

If Iraq didn’t have WMD, why did our military find biological/chemical warfare suits and antidote injection kits had been distributed to some Iraqi military units? Are we to believe the Iraqis feared we would use biological and chemical weapons against them?

In May 2004 we got the answer to that question. American soldiers were attacked with two shells containing mustard gas and sarin and the soldiers had to be treated for exposure. Are we to believe these were the only WMD shells in Iraq?

“Can somebody please explain the logic in being in Iraq instead of being where we should be, Saudi Arabia?”

[RWC] First, I don’t even know how to respond to a ridiculous question like this. I can only hope Mr. Drobac displays better logic when he’s teaching high school students.

Second, does anyone believe Mr. Drobac would have supported action against Saudi Arabia?