- Just hours after President Bush reportedly assured Saudi
chief of state Crown Prince Abdullah of the "eternal friendship"
between the U.S. and the Saudi kingdom on Tuesday, the kingdom's leading
English language newspaper Arab News published a cartoon on its Web site
trashing Vice President Dick Cheney as an Israeli puppet.
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- Juxtaposed next to a favorable report on President Bush's
meeting with Saudi U.S. ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan at Bush's Crawford,
Tx. ranch, ArabNews.com's "Daily Cartoon" for Wednesday shows
Cheney ripping a photo of Saddam Hussein in half as an antenna protrudes
from his head. http://www.arabnews.com/system/html/cartoon/280802.jpg
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- Cheney's antenna is depicted as receiving its signal
from a remote control panel operated by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
The caption above Cheney reads:
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- "It is not necessary to obtain permission from Congress
to hit Iraq... Only from the Knesset."
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- Speaking to a veterans group Monday, Cheney warned that
the U.S. would not wait till Saddam Hussein had obtained nuclear weapons
to take action against Iraq.
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- In contrast to the anti-Cheney cartoon, an accompanying
ArabNews.com report touts President Bush's warm telephone conversation
with Prince Abdullah on Tuesday.
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- "US President George W. Bush yesterday called Prince
Abdullah, the regent, by telephone to reaffirm the 'eternal friendship'
between the United States and Saudi Arabia," ArabNews.com said.
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