Israpundit features a couple of great articles on how the Saudi lobby, not the Israel lobby, influences US foreign policy detrimentally.

"Yesterday’s New York Times had a full page ad trumpeting “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by Professors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard’s Kennedy School. It raised a question in a conversation with Ted Belman about why there isn’t a comparable book about the vastly more powerful Saudi lobby fueled by billions in petro-dollars. Read this New York Sun article and then question why, after Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld’s victory in the Second U.S. Circuit and a possible vindication in an upcoming New York Supreme Court hearing in November, that some investigatiive jounalistic team hasn’t inked a book deal to do this important project?"

How about Hatred’s Kingdom by Dore Gold; House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger; Sleeping with the Devil by Robert Baer; and The Two Faces of Islam by Stephen Schwartz?

From Harper's Magazine: "This personal relationship with the Bush family has served Saudi Prince Bandar and his family very well, as documented in Craig Unger’s book, House of Bush, House of Saud.

But the prince and his royal relatives evidently also impressed the Clinton administration. Before he died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, the former FBI counterterrorism chief John O’Neill complained to French investigator Jean-Charles Brisard that Saudi pressure on the State Department had prevented him from fully investigating possible al-Qaida involvement in the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996, which killed 19 U.S. servicemen, and of the destroyer Cole in 2000.

As with Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf, there’s always talk of the Saudis playing a double game with al-Qaida publicly denouncing it and privately paying it off but you don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to understand that the Saudis don’t have America’s best interests at heart."