Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Saudi Report: U.S. Politicians Easy to Bribe

In a piece by Amr Faisal of the Arab News, it's recommended that the Saudi Kingdom refrain from investing in U.S. government securities and, instead, spend its petrodollars bribing senior U.S. politicians. According to Faisal, bribing U.S. officials would provide a much better return on investment than "simply buying a bunch of ultimately worthless US securities." Faisal also says:
I am constantly struck by the small amounts of money it takes to purchase the friendship of some US politicians -- even those of high rank. They accept paltry sums that would be insulting to any high-ranking government official in this part of the world.

US politicians are thankfully quite reasonable in their demands and we can pay them in US dollars thereby avoiding currency risk.
So, in the Arab world there's a belief that not all Americans are greedy infidels. Some are politicians that can be bought for insultingly small sums of money. Of course, Faisal doesn't provide any details to support his assertions that American politicians can be bribed with peanuts. I'd like to know some names.

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