Arabian Oil Tsar to President Bush: ‘Get Lost’

After pleading with King Abdullah to pump more oil and ease gas prices, “get lost” was the answer President Bush received on his historic visit to Saudi Arabia.

“Presidents and kings have every right to comment or ask or say whatever they want,” but we will not do it, the Saudi oil minister, Ali Naimi, responded in a hastily convened press conference hours after the presidential supplication.


Particularly noteworthy is that Mr. Bush made his entreaty on behalf of American consumers whose tax dollars and soldiers have