Why Might a Saudi King Want the US to Attack Iran?

[Douglas Carpenter]

Run time: 14:14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFW33KNKPsI   Posted on YouTube: December 01, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheRealNews Views on YouTube: 303   Posted on DU: December 01, 2010 By DU Member: Douglas Carpenter Views on DU: 372

 
Mainstream media has been quick to highlight WikiLeaks' cable reporting a statement from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia that the U.S. should attack Iran, because it is a danger to the region. Larry Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, gives The Real News a series of reasons why such information requires questioning. He questions the media's willingness to treat the cables as the gospel truth, as well as pointing out that a Saudi King would have reasons beyond security to want an attack on Iran. Namely it would hinder an oil competitor and financier of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah which Saudi Arabia opposes, while also causing the price of oil to sky rocket.

Bio

Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on US national security. He also instructs a senior seminar in the Honors Department at the George Washington University entitled "National Security Decision Making."

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2. If anything the American people should wake up and

not get involved in war with Iran.... But not much information has been released via leaks, so it is hard to come to a conclusion that you make.... I'm most interested in the banking cables coming out next month, and considering the shake down of the American people via the bank bailouts, it doesn't take a genious to realize why wikileaks are being demonized.... But we shall see...