sisyphusshrugged | oh, man, decisions decisions.

Looks as if Our Fearless Leader's Great and Good Friend Prince Abdullah has been so immoderate as to say what he actually thinks.

There were conflicting reports on the number of wounded, ranging from 25 to 50, and of the number of Saudi victims. The Saudi Press Agency report said a Saudi National Guardsman was killed. The U.S. Embassy said several Saudi security forces were "killed and wounded in their fight with the terrorists," but gave no numbers.

The U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, James C. Oberwetter, condemned the attacks and offered condolences to the families of the victims. "The United States appreciates everything the Saudi authorities are doing to fight terrorism, including here in the kingdom," he said in a statement.

The last attack that killed Americans in Saudi Arabia was in May 2003, when coordinated suicide bombings at Riyadh housing compounds killed 34 people, including eight Americans. The second Riyadh suicide assault, in November, killed 17 people.

Crown Prince Abdullah, speaking on Saudi television, said: "The kingdom will eliminate terrorism no matter how long it takes."

Later, the Saudi Press Agency quoted Abdullah as telling a gathering of princes in Jiddah that "Zionism is behind terrorist actions in the kingdom. I can say that I am 95 percent sure of that."

He said Zionism had misled "some of our sons," but did not elaborate. Anti-Israeli sentiment runs high in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Arab world because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Wow. Quel dilemma for the right.

To tie themselves up in pretzels to figure out a way that this guy is a close personal friend and political ally of Our Fearless Leader's and yet an antisemite who blames Israel when one of his own kills yet again?

Yet, if they go for the pretzel option, our commander-in-chief is in danger...

Yet another of the reasons why it sucks to be you guys.