Arabia Quote by John Perkins

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

— Phyllis Chesler

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

— Jerome Corsi

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

— Barbara Tuchman

Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979;…

— Stephen Kinzer

Saudi Arabia is a very responsible country. For decades, we used our oil policy as responsible economic tool and isolated it from politics.

— Khalid A. Al-Falih

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

— Chris Kyle

“Unwilling to borrow substantially from abroad, the Saudis’ profligate arms spending was under threat. Some of the equipment bought under the first phase of…

— Andrew Feinstein

We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the…

— John F. Kerry

Imagine a world in which you had Saddam Hussein, who had the capacity to make a weapon of mass destruction, who was paying suiciders…

— George W. Bush

Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it. The United…

— John Shimkus

That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the…

— Ed Markey