Quote by KH:
I've stated it before, I think KSA is headed for a serious revolution/popular uprising within the next few years. It's gotten a lot closer in the last year or so.

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I lived in Iran until just shortly before the Shah abdicated and see some of the same pressures building in Saudi where the Royal family is just hanging on to steal as much as possible before abdicating. Unfortuantely,as in Iran, the void will be filled by religious extremists who will purge all the rich people from their perches and start the stealing for themselves under the guise of "Theocractic democracy".
The Iraqi situation will bring some hesitance to anti American fervour when the change comes but it will come; in fact look for the yanks and other western governments and the new governors to saddle up to each other because Saudi needs to sell oil no matter who's in charge or the whole economy just sinks into a big black hole.
The Venezuelan situation while not similar is indicative of how the yanks will overlook brutality and de facto dictatorship as long as the oil keeps flowing.

[This message has been edited by parnel (edited 11-10-2003).]