"Our friends, the Saudis"

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OUR FRIENDS THE SAUDIS--137,000 Google hits
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Nancy Pelosi visited Saudi Arabia. Who first said "Our friends, the  Saudis"?
It's now used ironically.
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(GOOGLE BOOKS)
_The Whole Library Handbook 4: Current Data,  Professional Advice, and
Curiosa about Libraries and... - Page  450_
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0838909159&id=6jIjcUMP4CcC&pg=PA450&lpg=PA450&ots=02L7o2Huee&dq="our+friends+the
+saudis"&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=HN-0hGBXVNhnBP8f131cZv5Y7FM)
by  George M. Eberhart - 2006 - 596 pages
Usage: "The sarcastic  meme of'Our friends, the Saudis' continues to spread
across
the  internet." Although not, strictly speaking, blog-specific,  ...
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(GOOGLE GROUPS)
_Saudi Oil (Re: Gulf War Wimps?)_
(http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.misc/browse_thread/thread/111679b223d54c63/3f576267a7d984c9?lnk=st&q="our+fr
iends+the+saudis"&rnum=361#3f576267a7d984c9)       Group:
_talk.politics.misc_ (http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.misc?lnk=sg)      ... Check
out some shortwave broadcasts out of Iraq (or  our "friends" the Saudis,
they give lots of  coverage to his speeches.) (I wonder if the CIA taught him
the play on  words thing.) Jamie Bass - The Ham Sandwich ...
Oct 1 1993 by Jamie Bass - The Ham Sandwich - 14 messages -  11 authors



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