Carpetbagging & the Two State Solution

Last night I turned on the telly where I managed to catch a few minutes of a rather remarkable interview on CNN between Wolf Blitzer and Bob Woodward (who was busy plugging his new book; State of Denial:

BLITZER: ... Saudi ambassador -- effectively, in 2004, the Saudis agreed to increase the export of oil, so that the price per barrel would go down, and potentially help President Bush get reelected. And the Saudis are saying they would never do anything like that.

WOODWARD: OK. But I had that in the book two years ago, "Plan of Attack." And there was lots of rumbling about it. And it turns out that Prince Bandar visited the White House between when I was working on that and when the book came out, and came out publicly. And you can find clips in which he announced that they are going to keep the price of oil down...

BLITZER: Well, they're suggesting...

WOODWARD: ... as much as possible.

BLITZER: They're suggesting to prevent global recession, not to help Bush get reelected.

WOODWARD: Come on. Get real.

BLITZER: I'm just telling you...

WOODWARD: OK.

(CROSSTALK)

BLITZER: ... what the Saudis are saying.

(CROSSTALK)

(LAUGHTER)

BLITZER: And one final question.

When President Bush became the first U.S. president to endorse a two-state solution to the Middle East crisis, Israel and a new state of Palestine, what you report, and I did not know -- and fascinating -- is that this was the result, effectively, of an ultimatum that the Saudis delivered to President Bush: You better do this. And you better do it right now.

WOODWARD: Or we're not going to have relations with you, the Saudis said.

Now, that has been reported before. But I got the memos and the notes of the meetings. And they're very detailed. And you see how Bandar...

BLITZER: You actually saw those documents?

WOODWARD: You see how Bandar lays down an argument. And, of course, the president then eventually came out for a Palestinian state.

To think, the moonbats might just have a point, but not in the way they imagined. It really is rather astounding to contemplate that US Foreign policy might now revolve completely around the price of oil and what it can potentially buy; if Woodward is correct.

I say, “Mavel Tov” to the Israelis – oil has just been found in the Dead Sea, and obviousl, in the nick of time!