With Friends Like These...

Did you hear the one about the Saudi prince who says they could have helped prevent 9/11 but they didn't? Speaking to the Arabic satellite network Al-Arabiya on Thursday, Bandar -- now Abdullah's national security adviser -- said Saudi intelligence was "actively following" most of the September 11, 2001, plotters "with precision." "If U.S. security authorities had engaged their Saudi counterparts in a serious and credible manner, in my opinion, we would have avoided what happened," he said. [full story] I smell a whole new 9/11 conspiracy theory coming out of this, so let me be the first to blog that 9/11 obviously happened because George Bush wouldn't take one for the team (let alone risk angering the republican base) and let an obviously horny and frustrated Bandar even get to first base. Prince Bandar clearly wished that he could be the plane crashing into Bush's pentagon if you know what I mean, but Bush wouldn't even let him get past hand holding.