Ken Layne, drawing on this ABC News report detailing “missing sections” from the UBL tape, says it’s time to take the battle to The House of Saud.

So, let’s get this straight: A Saudi millionaire from one of Saudi Arabia’s richest families plotted a massive attack on the United States using 15 Saudi citizens as hijackers, and this attack was praised by members of the Saudi Arabian government’s religious council while Saudi officials smuggled a fanatic Saudi cleric into Afghanistan to give praise to the Saudi who led the attack. The Saudis hustle the bin Laden family out of the United States within hours of the attacks — and with the White House’s help — and refuse to cooperate in the investigation of the 15 Saudi hijackers. Meanwhile, Saudi royalty runs loose in the United States, breaking the law and claiming diplomatic immunity whenever they’re caught.

Folks, Saudi Arabia attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. It doesn’t matter whether the command came from that bloated hog King Fahd or the fanatic religious leadership he can’t control. What is obvious to everyone except the Bush Administration is that our ally, Saudi Arabia, harbored, supported and created the terrorists who launched a war against the United States 100 days ago.

Forget Iran and Iraq and Somalia for now. It is time to attack and occupy Saudi Arabia, put its leaders and “clerics” on trial in military tribunals, and destroy the bin Laden terrorist network where it lives: Saudi Arabia.

Powerful stuff. I’m interested to see how Don Rumsfeld will handle the inevitable onslaught of questions and concerns this report raises, but one thing is clear: Rudy Giuliani is looking more and more like a genius statesman for refusing that bloody Saudi check, Cynthia McKinney more and more like she should clear out her desk and stumble off the Hill in utter disgrace…

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