Why the King Won’t be Coming to Dinner
It’s hard to know how things could go much worse for the president. But then I thought that a couple months ago and the beat goes inexorably on.
It’s hard to know how things could go much worse for the president. But then I thought that a couple months ago and the beat goes inexorably on.
There is hardly a foreign head of state more securely wedded to the Bush family that that of the Saudi king. The Saudi Kings, this one and his predecessor, are not only family friends, but business associates. Prince Bandar bin Sultan practically lived in the White House, he was there so often over the 22 years he served as Saudi ambassador to Washington. He was the first outside the control group around Bush to know the Iraqi war plan and schedule.
Before the American people, before the Congress.
The day after 9-11, when you and I and all other American civilians were grounded, at least one private plane was cleared for flight out of the country. It carried a number of Saudi nationals, including members…